Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 53, Number 300, Decatur, Adams County, 22 December 1955 — Page 1

Vol. LIIL No. 300.

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WITH ANNOUNCEMENT that the Ford Motor Company will offer 10.200,000 shares of coinmog stock for public sale next month, Francis C. Reed (left), special counsel for the company hands over a registration statement and a check for $76,500 for filing fees to Margaret Lamb of the Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington. The slock to be sold will represent 60 percent of the voting control of the firm, up until now self owned by the Ford family.

Highway Plan Is Urged By Senator Duff Calls For National Road Construction, Include Toll Roads WASHINGTON (INS) — Sen. James H. Duff (R Pa.), called, today for a national highway construction program which would include toll roads wherever possible. The former Pennsylvania governor, whose state built the first modern toll-supported turnpike, has laid his proposal before administration highway planners. Duff declared bluntly that: 1. States not faced with problems of dense population and highway crowding will refuse to vote in congress for superhighways which would rob them qf federal aid for local road construction. t. Existing highways linking the nation’s metropolitan centers would not carry "even a fraction” of the populations which would have to be evacuated in event of an atomic attack. He said this is particularly true in the populous eastern U.S. Duff said in an interview that the administration’s highway program, now in progress of revision, should be divided into two parts, strable that toll roads will pay,” He said that “where it is demonthese superhighways should be financed on that basis —by tolls from users. Where superhighways are needed but won’t “pay out” through tolls, then federal aid should be provided. The administration proposed last year that its highway program be financed through sale of bonds, to be paid off in the future. Now, it is said to be considering a pay-as-you-go plan which calls for higher taxes on highway users. Duff said there is “immediate” highways connecting such metroneed to ease the crowding of major potitan areas as Washington and Richmond, Philadelphia. New York and other centers. “He added: "As a senator and a former governor, I’ve observed that the states —particularly those with small populations—depend in considerable part on federal funds for construction of rural highways. They are not going to give up funds received from federal grants under existing law to contribute to a system of transcontinental highways. “Therefore the problem in congress has got to be geared to a program which realizes that such states will not go along with anything that deprives them of existing aid. The original administration program was in that category.” Pennsylvania’s turnpike, opened just before America entered World War II and supported by tolls, has been a financial success, Duff pointed out. The original turnpike section between Harrisburg and Pittsburgh metropolitan areas was • extended east to Philadelphia and contracts were let for its extension west to the Ohio line during Duff’s administration as governor. Three Children Die As Home Destroyed INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — Three -children were burned to death today when a flash fire destroyed their small home when their mother stepped out for a minute to do some washing. Burned to death by the fire which gutted the small home were Dallas Ellington, 4; Herbert, 3, and their aister, Dora, 2. Mrs. Irma Ellington said she had juat gone next door to pee the washing machine when the' house caught fire and burned down.

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Lausche Candidate For Seat In Senate Ohio Governor To Seek Senate Seat COLUMBUS, O. (INS) —Political pundits pondered today on the effect Governor Lausche’s candidacy for the U. S. senate — rather than for a sixth terra as governor—will have on his darkhorse chances for a spot on the Democratic national ticket. . Although many believed the po- . litically-unorthodox governor may , have committed a faux pas—that he would have been in a stronger . position as dean of the nation’s . governors rather than as a candi- ’ date for a junior senatorship — Lausche kept his reasons strictly to himself. His terse. 23-word statement said merely: . “At the May Sth primary on the ’ Democratic ticket, 1 will seek the t nomination for the office of Unitt ed States senator of Ohio.” As a senatorial candidate, the 60-year-old, six-foot Lausche will attempt to unseat Republican • Sen. George H. Bender, who has the bleasing of the Eisenhower ‘ administration for which Lausche • so often has expressed admira- ! tion. r Bender, elected two years ago • to fill the unexpired term of the • late Sen. Robert A. Taft, insisted ’ he was “hot surprised” at Laus- - che’s announcement and said that • he would campaign on his own support of the Eisenhower pro- • gram. The Onio cnier executive an--1 nounced on December 14 that he ’ would also be a ‘favorite son” 1 candidate for Ohio's 58 votes to next year's Democratic national convention. Asked why he now 1 announced for the senate rather ’ than seek a sixth term as gover- ’ nor —a post no other Ohioan ever 1 for more than three terms—- ' the bushy-haired, cigar-smoking ’ Lausche merely waved to his single, type-written sentence and said: “There’s your statement. It's ' all I’m going to say.” 1 The governor's action threw : wide open the race for the governor’s chair Lausche has held i for nine of the last 11 years. I (Continued On Page Five) J : Soviet Parliament • Session Postponed No Explanation Os Friday Postponement i i MOSCOW (INS) — Friday’s . scheduledTrpentng otThe StfpreiHe" . Soviet parliament has been post- . poned without explanation to next > Monday. [ Today's Moscow newspapers I quoted a statement by the official t Tass news agency which made no p reference to a postponement, but , stated merely that the Soviet I would convene on Dec. 26. ( The change had been reported I unofficially Wednesday night and ( came as a surprise to obs servers in the Soviet capital. They had expected the session to discuss only next year’s budget and to provide an opportunity for premier Nikolai Bulganin and party first secretary Nikita Khrushchev to report on their tour of south Asia from which they return- > ed only Wednesday. Observers believed the ppstponement indicated some new develop- ’ ment had occurred during the last ' three weeks since the original announcement was made. i „ > INDIANA WEATHER Mostly cloudy with slowly [ rising temperature® tonight ■nd Friday. Low tonight 22i 90 north, 30-35 south. High Friday 35-42 north, 40-48 south. ■v , -

Ike Presents Surprise Gift To His Staff Copies Os Fishing Camp Picture Given White House Staff WASHINGTON (INS) — President Eisenhower said merry Christmas to 700 members of the White House staff today with a surprise gift -—a painting of h4s Rocky Mountain fishing camp. The Chief Executive finished the winter scene in his hospital room In Denver while convalescing from his heart atatck. Copies of the painting were passed out today at the traditional reception given by the President and Mrs. Eisenhower for the White House staff. Meanwhile the First Lady planned another visit to Walter Reed hospital today to see her new granddaughter, but a busy schedule was expected to keep Mr. Eisenhower in the White House. The President’s fourth grandchild. named Mary Jean, arrived at 4:58 p.m. (EST) Wednesday as an early Christmas present for the first family. Today’s reception in the gaily decorated East Room of the White House included secretaries, cooks,. White House policemen as well as top-ranking members of the President’s staff. t Mr. Eisenhower passed up the usual custom of shaking hands with everyone present to avoid any chance of overtaxing his strength, but circulated around the room, wishing a merry Christmas to all. He began the painting of the fishing camp at Byers Peak ranch near Fraser, Colo., the week be (ore his heart attack, using a photograph to help him with the winter scene. The picture shows his favorite fishing stream. St. Louis Creek, blanketed with snow- against a background of towering Byers Peak. In 1953 and 1954. members of the staff received copies of the President's paints of Abraham Lincoln and George Washington as Christmas gifts. Christmas paintings and cards also went to all of the newsmen who covered the President's activities during his convalescence in Denver and Gettysburg, Pa. The Girl Scouts of Philadelphia were delivering “sleds on wheels” to the White House this afternoon for the three older Eisenhower grandchildren. Gifts were already pouring in for Mary Jean, who will join the family Christmas gathering as soon as her doctors let her leave the hospital. Indict Gojack For Congress Contempt Grand Jury Indicts UE Vice President John T. Gojack, of Fort Wayne, vice president of the United Electrical Workers Union, Wednesday was indicted by a federal grand jury on grounds of contempt of congress. Contempt charges stemmed from Gojack’s appearance last February before the house un-American activities committee, which was then investigating reports of Communist activity in Fort Wayne labor unions. Gojack was accused of unlawfully”"refusing to answer nine questions concerning Communism in ap pearances before the committee Feb. 28 and March 1, 1955. According to the committee. Gojack last February accused Congressional investigators of "union busting” and using “paid liars.” He refused at the hearing to say whether he had ever been a Communist. ’* ■ _ . • - Also indicted Wednesday was Harry Sacher, prominent New York defense lawyer for Communist groups, for refusing to tell senate investigators whether he has ever been a Red. Brother Os Local Residents Killed Funeral services were held today at Kendallville for Frank Smith, 60, who was killed Sunday when struck by lightning while standing in the doorway of his home in Hickory. Miss. Survivors include hi s wife, Daisy; tour daughters, three sons, three brothers, including Charles Smith of Decatur, and two sisters. Mrs. Gladys Anderson of Decatur and Mrs. Ruth Sells of Geneva.

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Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, December 22,1955.

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Pilgrims Pour inlo Jerusalem For Christmas Christian Pilgrim’s Permitted To Make Journeys To Shrines JERUSALEM, (Israeli Sector) (INS) —Christian pilgrims, poured into Jerusalem from around the world today while a lessening of tension in the Arab-held old city Indicated they will be able to complete their journeys to Christendom’s holy shrines. The travelers will be permitted to cross the border from the Israeli sector early Friday. The traditional Christmas Eve mass in Bethlehem's Church of The Nativity will be held. Jordanian officials, plagued by six days of rioting in Jerusalem and Bethlehem, lifted the curfew in the city of Jesus birth. Five persons were killed and 55 injured in Bethlehem during the demonstration there Monday against Jordan’s proposed adherence to the-western —sponsored Baghdad Pact. The Jordanian-administered section of Jerusalem was quiet Wednesday, but Wednesday night shout- . ing Aralta swarmed through,-. streets again. But thenewlyajy pointed caretaker government restored order quickly and no casualties were reported. 16-Year-Old Girl Killed In Accident LODOGA, Ind. (INS) —Sixteen-year-old Virginia Burkett was killed Wednesday when she lost control of her car on a county road and ran into a ravine., Police said the girl apparently died instantly of a broken neck. The accident was not discovered for several hours. BULLETIN Mrs. Dale Osborn, 54, formerly of Decatur, died at noon today at the Lutheran hospital in Fort Wayne. She had been in failing health for nearly a year. The body was removed to the D. O. McComb & Sons funeral home in that city. Funeral arrangements have not been complete. v"~*~ Decafur Casting Co. Distributes Dollars Annual Distribution Made For Employes The Decatur Casting Co. today presented its annual Christmas gift of silver dollars and Christmas food baskets to its employes at the close of the day’s operations this ' afternoon. The food baskets have been distributed annually since 1940 and the gift of silver dollars was started in 1948. The distribution of silver dollars is based on length of continuous service with the company, starting with one dollar for those employed July 1. 1955, or after with continuous service. Five silver dollars were given to those employes between Jan. 1, 1955 and June 30, 1955. and -with continuous service. Five silver dollars plus one silver dollar for each year of service were distributed to those whose latest employment began prior to Jan. 1, 1955. The maximum gift was $4-0, with an average of sl6, representing an average of 12 years of service for the group. The silver dollars were enclosed tn individual money bags, with the presentation for the company by H. E. Bromer, resident manager; Harry Young, superintendent, and Glenn Maullepj assistant superintendent. I

Winter Officially Arrives In Nation New York Town Is Coldest In Nation CHICAGO TINS) — Winter arrived officially today but most residents of thk country agree that the blustry weather that goes with this season of the year arrived weeks ago. A servere cold spell that hit Minnesota Monday htjs been centered over the far northeast for the past two days and brought with it a Christmas atmosphere that has continued through this morning. Temperatures early today were below the zero mark over most of New England and New York. Massena in extreme northern New York was the coldest spot in the nation with a frigid 30 below zero. The warmest was Key West. Fla., with a mild 68 degrees. Below 7 freezing temperatures extended from southern North Carolina westward to eastern Oklahoma, northeast Kansas and to northeast Montana. • On the first day of winter, here’s how a few places around the world , listed the temperature: Guam, j partly cloudy, 79; Wake Island, I partly cloudy, 69: Honolulu, cloudy, (74; San Juan, Puerto- Rico, cloudy, 171.: Bermuda, cloudy, 56; Balboa, j Canal Zone, cloudy. 74; Fairbanks, i Alaska, smwr.two below zerorAn- ; chorage. snow, 14 above and Dikhon Island, U.S.S.R., clbudy, 33 below zero. Quite warm Pacific air. meanwhile, continued to bring mild readings in the Rockies and the western plains. Temperatures were in the 40s in Colorado, Wyoming and Central Montana. Rain continued to fall on the west coast with California and southern Oregon listing nearly ah (Continued On Page Five) Adams Central Bond Issue Is Purchased To Use Proceeds On Addition To School School bonds totalling $35,000, issued by Adams County Central Consolidated School for partial payment on construction of a new unit at the present site at Monroe, were sold’ Wednesday afternoon by the board of trustees to American Fletcher National Bank and Trust Co. and Indianapolis Bond and Share of Indianapolis, on a bid of two and a half percent, plus $47 premium. The Fletcher bid was the best of three submitted, all by Indianapolis bonding houses. Money derived from the sale will be added to the balance raised by the cumulative building fund tax for construction of a new unit to the building. Adams Central is school headquarters for students, from Washington, Kirkland and Monroe townships, and the buildings are located at the west edge of Monroe in Washington township. inclitded: City Securities. Indianapolis, 2% percent plus S3B premium. Raffensberger-Hughes. Indianapolis, 2% percent plus $39.42 premium. Robert Smith, of Custer and Smith, which firm is handling the legal matters pertaining to the proposed construction, said today that bids on construction of the new unit would be received Thursday afternoon, December 29, at the school offices in Monroe. School Reporter To Be Printed Friday The “School Reporter.” a feature prepared by student reporters in the Decatur, Decatur Catholic, Adams Central, Monmouth and Pleasant Mills high schools, which usually is printed in Thursday’s Dally Democrat, wiU be published this week in Friday’s edition, the annual Christmas edition of this newspaper.

Report Blames Israelis For Syrian Clash Security Council Os United Nations Studies Complaint UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (INS) —The UN security council meets on Syria’s complaint against Israel today amid warnings from the chief truce supervisor in Palestine of possible war in the Holy Land. Maj. Gen. E. L. M. Burns said in a report blaming Israel for the Dec. 11 attack on a Syrian military outpost near Lake Tiberias that such “retaliatory" raids can flare into “full-scale hostilities.” Syria last week demanded Israel’s expulsion from the UN or economic sanctions as punishment for the killing of 56 Syrian soldiers, police and civilians in the nighttime assault east of the lake. Israeli ambassador Abba S. Eban was scheduled to place before the council at today’s meeting, "captured” documents intended to show “that Syria planned to deny use of Lake Tiberias to Israel.” man said: , "Syrian documents which have reached us prove conclusively that the Syrian government has instructed its outposts to deny use of the Sea of Galilee (Lake Tiberias) to Israel by shooting on boats approaching the northern shore. “They also showed the Syrian government ordered its troops to regard the lake as Syrian territorial waters. It is further revealed that . . . the Syrian attack of Dec. 10 was clearly in compliance with this order, which was aimed at Syrian control of Israeli territory.” Under the 1949 Palestine armistice agreements, whose supervise ion is entrusted by the UN to Burns, Israel controls the lake and an 11-yard strip on the side nearest Syria. Burns' detailed report failed to recommend any drastic punitive measures for the large-scale Israeli raid, which he declared as "a deliberate violation” of the truce. But he asserted that the basic cause of such incidents lay in the breakdown of the existing Armistice negotiation machinery. Burns stressed that so long as neither Israel nor the Arabs make (Continued On Page Five) Norman S. Stalter Dies This Morning Funeral Services Saturday Afternoon Norman S. Stalter J .67,.a..natYie. of Adams county, died at 8 o'clock this morning following a heart attack at his home in Nottingham township. Wells county. He had been in falling health for several years. He was born in Kirkland township Feb. 9, 1888. a son of William and Amanda Drum-Stalter, and was married to Cleo Mosure Nov. 26. 1912. Mr. Stalter was an employe of the Northern Indiana Public Service Co. in Fort Wayne until his retirement seven years ago. Surviving in addition to his wife are a daughter, Mrs. Loren Gottschalk of near Bluffton; a son, Kenneth Dwight Stalter of Fort Wayne; two grandchildren, and two brothers. Delvia Stalter of North Webster and Allen Stalter of Dallas, Tex at. One brother, Clarence, preceded him in death. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 D p.m. Saturday at the Jahn funeral home in Bluffton, the Rev. Matthew Worthman officiating. Burial will be in Six Mile cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o’clock this evening.

Hope For Peace Al Westinghouse Fades Company Officer Charges Profanity PITTSBURGH (INS) —Hope tor Christmas peace in the Westinghouse strike faded today in the breakoff of bargaining after what a company officer cabled “five minutesof screaming, profanity and name-calling” by a union official. Robert D. Blasler, vice president in charge of Westinghouse industrial relations, hurled the namecalling charge against James B. Carey, president of the AFL-CIO International Union of Electrical Workers. Carey, wnose 44,000 members in 29 Westinghouse plants have been on strike since Oct. 17, replied immediately that the company used a “childish excuse to walk out” of the negotiations. Blasier said federal mediator John R. Murray recessed Wednesday’s meeting after the IUE chief directed name caffing both at company representatives and at the mediator. Murray, however, denied that any profanity or abuse was directed at him. The violent breakoff was the apparent low point in the ofteninterrupted bargaining over length of contract, wages and the company’s right to conduct time studies. , Blasier declared that the Company wants to settle the 10-week-old strike and will resume meetings whenever the union is ready to discuss issues instead of “the people on the company’s negotiating committee.” A union statement declared that the firm picked a childish excuse to walk out after refusing to place a bargaining proposal on the table. The statement declared that the union hopes that the company “Will acquire enough good will to bargain in good faith.” City Officials Will Take Oaths Dec. 31 Public Ceremony Saturday, Dec. 31 Six newly elected Democratic city officials, Ed Bauer, re-elect-ed to the city council, and John DeVoss, city attorney, will be sworn in Saturday, December 31, at 2 o’clock at the city hall in a public ceremony, it was announced today. Headed by Robert Cole, mayorelect, and Mrs. Mirriam Hall, clerk-treasurer-elect, the group will receive the oath of office from Edward F. Jaberg, Adams county clerk. Jaberg, who will retire as clerk the following day, will give each official the oath separately. The new council will be composed of Ed Bauer, re-elected, and -Lawrence Kohne. Carl Gerber, Clyde Drake and Norbert Aumann. It was decided to hold the public ceremony December 31, after'a conference with a representative of the state board of accounts who suggested that date because New Year's Day falls on Sunday. The new officials legally will not assume their offices until January 1, but in accordance with the statute, new officials can receive their oath any time after the election. There will, be no formal program other than the taking of the oath, those planning the ceremony said. 1 The publh? is Invited and there will be an informal reception in the city hall afterwards. January 1 will mark the first day in 20 years when one political party will have every elective office in the city. The new council will meet Monday. January 2, for the purpose of organizing and hearing assignments to committees. The first regularly scheduled meeting will follow the next day, Tuesday, January 3. A

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Confirmation Is Lacking On Revolt Details Heavy Fighting In Capital's Streets Is Reported Today BUENOS AIRES (INS)—Reports reaching Argentina said today a revolution broke out in Paraguay and there is heavy fighting in the streets of the capital of Asuncion. The first of the unconfirmed reports was received Wednesday night. The revolution was said to have begun after President Gen, Stroessner ordered the arrest of Epifanio Mendez Fleitas, Paraguayan Central Bank president and “strong man”.of the Colorado political party. Mendez Fleitas, a former Asuncion police chief, was said to have been accused of plotting against Storessner, but It was not clear whether he was actually arrested or was leading a revolt. The revolt itself was reportedly begun by a cavalry regiment in the capital and also by army units at Campo Grande military garrison near Asuncion. Mendez Fleitas’ faction reportedly was supported by a section of the army commanded by Cea. Mattas apmajUego. Efforts to confirm these reports directly in Asuncion were unsuc- L cessful. Argentine post office officials said radio - telephone communications with Paraguay were severed shortly bejfore midnight. County Schools To Reopen January 3, Holiday Extended Students of the rural schools of Adams county will be given their New Years holiday Monday, Jan. 2, according to a decision announced today by Gail Grablll, county ' superintendent, following a meeting of the county board of education. The rural schools originally were scheduled to return Co classes Jan. 2, but now will not return until Tuesday. Jan. 3. A change announced in the state's regulations on the school terms allowed the county officials to extend the holiday vacation one full day. The Decatur public schools and the county schools will clsoe at noon Friday Tor the Christmas vacation. The Decatur Catholic schools closed Wednesday afternoon. All will reopen Tuesday, Jan. 3. Good Fellows Fund Previously Reported $668.11 L. T. L. Trinity E. U. B. Church . 5.00 A Friend 10.00 TrinityJE. U. B. Boys and Girls Fellowship. — 5.00 American Legion Auxiliary 5.00 Mr. & Mrs. Frank Kitson— 10.00 Finlayson Children 10.00 Gwen Hilyard . 5.00 TOTAL $718.11

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