Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 53, Number 305, Decatur, Adams County, 29 December 1955 — Page 1

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ALDO ABIR of Montevideo, Uruguay, waves from his clattering, almost brakeless 1928 auto on arrival in Los Angeles after 22,000 miles of Argentina, Brazil. Chile. Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Central America and. Mexico. Senor Abir, 24, plans to motor through the U. S. come spring.

Demand GOP Submit Flood Insurance Plan Worn White House Recommend Flood Plans WASHINGTON (INS) — Two senate Democrats demanded today that the White House speed up its recommendations for a federal flood disaster insurance program. Otherwise, they warned that the senate banking committee may act on pending flood insurance legislation without waiting for the administration’s proposals. The warning came from banking chairman J. William Fulbright (DArk.) and Sen. Herbert H. Lehman (D-N. Y.) who charged their work on the insurance program has been delayed by the White House. Both senators leveled their criticism after an administration spokesman announced that the government “is now completing a draft of a legislative proposal so present to congress when it returns in January.” In making the statement, Frank J. Meistrell. acting housing and home finance administrator, said H. 11. F. A. has “done considerable research to determine this need can be met. through a system of flood insurance or some other more feasible plan.” But he withheld further details of the administration's thinking on the problem. In a letter to President Eisenhower, Lehman demanded that the White House submit its flood insurance plan to congress “within the next few days, if possible." He declared: “We are much handicapped in proceeding further without the expert views and specific recommendations of the administration." Fulbright said that flood insurance will be,the banking committee's "first order of business” after congress convenes next week. Therefore, he said that the views of the White House “should be submitted promptly.” The bankingzi&afrman tolj__liud(ContiAued On Fage>#ive) Government Seeks ( Frozen Hamburger WASHINGTON (INS) — The government is in the market for substantial amounts of frozen. hamburger to be used in the school lunch program. Contracts have been awarded for 6,725.000 pounds of the meat and an offer is outstanding to purchase approximately five million pounds more for the same purpose. City Council Holds Its Final Session .Members of the city council under Mayor John Doan met for theii last session Wednesday night at the city hall. Purpose of the meeting was to finish up routine end-of-the-year bills. -No other business was brought before the council in the 'lame-duck' session. Among those who sat in the official chajrs for the last time were Mayor Doan, clerk-treasurer Vernon Aurand. and councilmen Al Beavers, Adolph Kolter, Don Ggge z and Joseph Murphy. Ed Bauer, the ' other councilman, will return In January with the new council under Mayor-elect Robert Cole. Cole was among- those present for the final session of thd present city administration.

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Three Appointments Announced By Cole Three Appointed To City Positions Two young women and one man today were named to city positions by Mayor-elect Robert D. Cole, all three appointments to be effective Sunday. January 1. Mrs. William Hunter, who served as secretary to Bernard Clark, Democratic city chairman during the municipal campaign, has been appointed as clterk in the main office at the city hall. Mrs. Hunter has been active in Democratic politics for several years and she has had both stenographic and bookkeeping experience. Miss Marlene Laurent, active member of the Adams county Young Democrats and a member of the reportorial staff of the Daily Democrat, has been named secretary of the board of health, succeeding Mrs. Robert Lane, whose term expires Saturday. Miss Laurent was instrumental in the reorganizing of the Young Democrats here several years ago ■and since that time she has been active in all of her party's functions. Her position, which entails part time work, will not interfere with her reportorial position. Floyd Cook, active Democrat for many years, has been named as custodian of the city hall replacing Orval Sudduth, whose term expires Saturday night. 'the post of building inspector occupied by Harry Stults will be temporarily abandoned and the work during the winter months will be done by Ralph Roop, city engineer. Stults’ employment also ends Saturday. Griesel Resigns From State Post INDIANAPOLIS (INS) —State superintendent of public instruction Wilbur Young today announced the resignation of Paul R. fGriesel, of Indianapolis, as chief fiscal officer of his department and the appointment Os Richard H. Barr, of Knox, to the post. Young also announced --that Griesel will become business ager -of schools of Washington township, Marion county. — Mrs. Edith Cole 'Appointed Deputy Mrs. Edith Cole today was named deputy clerk-treasurer of Decatur effective January 1, it was announced by Mrs. Mirriam Hall, clerk-treasurer-elect, and Robert D. Cole, Mayorelect. Mrs. Cole is the wife of David Cole. The latter was recently released from‘the as-med forces on his return from a two year stay in Alaska. Mrs. Cole was with her husband on his Alaskdn assignment. The new deputy clerk treasurer has had several years eperience in stenographic and bookkeeping work. Her husband .is attending college in Fort Wayne and Mr. and Mrs. Cole reside in Decatur. PULLETIN, NEW PHILADELPHIA, O. (INS) —A four-engine airplane crashed in a field and burned near Westchester at 12'30 p.m. today and first reports said “at least several” persons were killed. ■- \ , Ambulances and emergency crews were rushed to the scene. There was no Information Whether it was a military or commercial plane. r

George Urges Reappraisal Os Foreign Aid Senate Committee Chairman Colls For Policy Reappraisal WASHINGTON (INS) — Senate foreign relations chairman Walter F. George called today for a 'very serious reappraisal” of the foreign aid program in the congressional session which convenes Tuesday. The Georgia Democrat said ini an interview he is awaiting President Eisenhower’s state of the union message to get a clear picture of the administration’s foreign aid proposal. George reported that both secletary of state John Foster Dulles and budget director Rowland R. Hughes had telephoned him in an effort to clarify the confusion their aid fiugr ecsreated on Capitol Hill. Dulles plans to ask congress for 4.9 billion dollars in appropriations, an increase of about 2.2 billions, but boost actual spending only 200 million dollars in the next year. The foreign relations chairman returned from his home in Vienna, Ga., ready for another busy year in which he will be a candidate for reelection at the age of 78. The senator pointed out that sentiment has been growing in congress for a reduction in foreign economic aid. He declared: “I think there will have to be a very serious reappraisal of the whole thing.” The foreign aid issue may be a touchy one for George in his senate campaign in Georgia. George announced his candidacy for reelection last week, after' a busy fall speaking tour in which he criss-crossed the state. His opponent is expected to be former Gov. Herman Talmadge, although Talmadge has not yet announced. < There have been strong indications that George's record of foreign aid support would be a Talmadge target if the ex-governor should seek the senate seat. Plan Bond Issue To Improve Hospital Circulate Petition To Support Request The board of trustees of Adams county memorial hospital and several Adams county citizens met Wednesday night at the hospital to complete plans for a county-wide solicitation of signatures on petitions to support the request to the county Council of a $450,000 bond issue for hospital improvements. Board members said that a complete list of solicitors in all 12 townships would be ready for announcement soon and that in the next week, or ten days the solicitation would start. The proposed bond issue, which would add about 25 beds to the present facilities and also would greatly improve other conditions at the hospital, would be completely paid off in 20 years. At the present county valuation, a tax levy of eight cents would provide the funds to payoff the bonds and interest, it was pointed out by hospital officials. The license of the hospital at present is in jeopardy and a recent letter from state board’’ ■ off health officials was read to those attending the Wednesday meeting. "It is not a caste of whether we want to make the improvements, it is a case of whether we want a county hospital to operate at all,” Thurman Drew, business manager, said. Solicitors will be TtwafshMl with a question and answer sheet and an effort will be made to explain the various problems to every resident of the county. The present proposal has been approved by the Adams county medical society, it was pointed out. A meeting will be called in a few days of all volunteer workers and solicitation of signatures will start in about 10 days, hospital trustees said. Price Os Lead Is Hiked Half-Cent NEW YORIK (INS) — The price of lead was advanced one-half cent a pound today to 16 cents a pound. This;was the first change since Sept. 23 when the price was marked up one-half cent to cents a pound.

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Russian Party Leader Blasts Eisenhower In Speech To Parliament

Congressmen Angered Over Accusations React Angrily To Khrushchev Charge Against President WASHINGTON (INS) — Mem- t bers of Congress reacted angrily today to Communist party boss Nikita Khrushchev’s charge that President Eisenhower was guilty of “crude interference” in the internal affairs of red satellite states. At Key West, Fla., Mr. Eisenhower flatly declined to be drawn into a controversy with Khrushchev. In Washington, secretary of state John Foster Dulles, also a Khrushchev target, withheld comment. But key legislators quickly < struck back at the Soviet Communist Chief’s denunciation of Christmas messages from Mr. Eisenhower and Dulles affirming continuing U.S. recognition of the plight of eastern European peoples held captive by Moscow. Sen. John J. Sparkman (D Ala.), 1952 Democratic vice presidential candidate, defended the Christma# gesture by the President and Dulles, which was made in broadcasts beamed behind the iron Radio Free Europe. Sparkman declared: “I think it has been expressed repeatedly that we do look for the eventual liberation of the enslaved people and the holding of free elections as Russia promised. “It is timely to remind Khrushchev that we are still looking for Russia to carry out promises she made to permit free elections and governments chosen by the people.” Sen. Alexander Wiley (R Wis.), senior GOP member of the senate foreign relations committee, said: “Khrushchev's attack on the President indicates that the Eisenhower Christmas prayer for liberation has reached the hearts of the enslaved peoples of Eastern Europe.” In Key West, sources close to the President said that one reason for Mr. Eisenhower's silence on Khrushchev’s attack was the Chief Executive’s nation to do nothing that might violate the spirit of the big four heads of government meeting last summer. Further congressional comment on blast Included: Repfclarence Brown (R Ohio) — "It is certainly in poor taste for Khrushchev to make an attack upon President Eisenhower so soon after his return from India and other Asiatic countries where he and premier Bulganin viciously at(Continued On Page Five) To Administer Oath To Richard Lewton Ceremony Saturday For County Clerk Judge Myles F. Parrish, Adams .circuit court, w-ill administer the -oatfi of office to Richard Lewton, who will become clerk of the Adams circuit court Sunday,.January 1. will succeed Edward F. Jaberg. who served, as clerk for two terms. The new elerk 'will- be the only county official to take office in 1956. He was elected to the post in November of 1954 in the general election. Following the administering of the oath, which will take place in the ,court room, an informal reception will be held in. the clerk’s office on the floor of the court bouse. . The oath administering ceremony will be held Saturday, because January 1, - date for the change in the office comes on Sunday. The new clerk served two terms as county treasurer and during the last yekr he has; been employed as an electrician and salesman. ’

Schedule Donors For Bloodmobile _ Bloodmobile Unit Here January 11 The scheduling of blood donors; for the visit of the Red Cross I bloodmobile in Decatur at the American Legion home Wednesday, •Jan. 11, has begun this week, according to an announcement by Mrs. Ed Bauer, county chairman of (the Red Cross blood program. Mrs. Bauer stated that a special effort will be made by staff aides to recruit some badly needed new donors for the local chapter. She added that the local staff hopes ■ especially to draw donors from the rural areas of the county. Many of the rural residents cannot donate blood during the warmer weather since they cannot leave their farm work to visit the Bloodmobile. For the January quota to be filled, 140 donors must be scheduled. ♦Mrs. Bauer pointed out that it is necessary for the* county to fill its quota since there will be a heavy drain on the regional blood bank over the holidays. She emphasized that any person, in giving blood, gives help to hisAdams county neighbors. She said that in 1955 to date Adams county; residents have received 217 pints of | blood. She aiso remarked on the value i of the blood which is used as whole | “blood for the day-in-day-out fight' for life in accident and illness; as i fibrinogen for childbirth hemor- i rhage, cardiac and lung surgery; ; as serum albumen for shock and to combat kidney and liver diseases; as packed toed cells for ! anemia; as globulin to build resistance to disease, and as I a reserve of blood fractions I against disaster. A group of volunteer staff aides i will be at the Red Cross office during the first week of January to assist in completing the sched- 1 ule. Any person who wishes to: give blood is asked to contact the' local Red Cross office. Auto License Plate I / Sale Opens Tuesday New License Plates On Sale January 3 Automobile license plates for 1956 will go on sale at the Decatur branch Tuesday mdrning, January 3. Mrs. Dale Death, bureau manager, announced today. Mrs. Death stressed the fact that under the state law. no license could be issued unless the applicant had his current tax receipt. This applies whether the applicant is aminor r or adult. Mrs. Death said that absolutely no license could be issued this year unless a current tax receipt was produced. Persons who want special numbers are asked to have their applications prior to the general sale starting January 3, No' numbers will be held after that date, and the plates will Ire disbursed as they are taken from the number racks. Several applicants, have told the bureau manager that they had no tax receipt becatSe they were minors. But the statute reads that any person who owns an automobile’is liable for personal property tax. and therefore must have a receipt. Bluffton Man Killed When Hit By Truck MUNCIE, Ind. (INS) — Hugh Smith Miller, 40, of Bluffton, was killed in a traffic accident on Road 28 seven miles northwest of Muncie early today.-’. Miller's gasoline truck had stalled and he was seeking to flag down aid when he was struck hy another truck driven by Robert Mansfield, of Muncie. Mansfield said lights of another truck blinded him.

Ike Declines Any Comment On Accusation Ike Declines Any Name-Calling Move With Reds' Leaders KEY WEST, Fla. (INS)—President Eisenhower, relaxing in the Florida Keys, declined to be drawn into a name-calling contest today with Russian Communist I party boss Nikita Khrushchev. Khrushchev’s charge that the President and secretary of state John Foster Dulles were guilty of “crude intereference'B” in the affairs of Communist east Europe was relayed to Mr. Eisenhower at his Key West retreat. White House news secretary James C. Hagerty said after discussing the matter with the President that Mr. Eisenhower would have no comment. Other sources said the Chief Executive had no intention of doing further damage to the fading “spirit of Geneva” by getting into an angry exchange with the Kremlin leaders. Khushchev, in a speech to the i Supreme Soviet, accused the, i President and Dulles of breaking: the spirit of Geneva with their i Christmas messages beamed behind the Iron Curtain. Meanwhile, Mr. Eisenhower got out his oil paints and went to < work on a Colorado mountain scene this morning to the mild i embarrassment of the Key West Chamber of Commerce. Blustery winds and overcast i skies followed an all-night rain l in the little resort town, appar-1 I ently discouraging the President | ■ from another practice session with his golf clubs. i The latest draft of his state of the union message is bing flown down from Washington tonight, and Mr. Eisenhower plans to : spend some time working on it Friday. His chief speech-writer, Kevin McCann, and other members of the White House staff will fly to Key West for conferences with the President whenever necessary during his planned 12-day work-and-play vacation. Happy Key Westers considered Mr. Eisenhower the best thing that has happened to their town since Harry Truman picked it as his favorite retreat from the pressures of the White House. Tourist business began to climb within hours after the word that the President was coming, and almost every hotel and. motor court in town was filled to capacity today. _ • But Mr. Eisenhower apparently had no intention of challenging Mr. Truman’s reputation in the (Continuea Un* Page Five) William Schlegel Dies At Lima, 0. Native Os County Is Taken By Death » * William Schlegel, 80, a native of Adams county and former resident of Decatdr. died at 8:45 o'clock Wednesday night at the home of a nephew, R, J. Gleckler, 985 Hazel Ave., in Lima, O. Mr. Schlegel, who left Decatur 46 years ago. was a retired city employe at Lima, where he worked for the city for 20. years. Surviving are a sister, Miss Sarah Schlegel, and two grandchildren. Four children, five brothers and five sisters preceded him in death. Funeral services will be conducted at 1 "p-. in. Saturday at the LaPoint funeral home in Ottawa, 0., the Rev. Charles,. Daniels of-1 ficiating. The body will be j brought to this city for burial, with the funeral cortege expected to arrive at the Decatur cemetery about 3 o’clock. The Black funeral home will assist in burial services.

Four Union Officers Taken Into Custody Charge Conspiracy In Piston Strike NEW CASTLE, Ind. (INS) — Four union officials were charged today with “pre-riotous conspiracy'' for their part in the violent Perfect Circlie strike. Taken into custody Wednesday night were Carl Batchfield, 33, CIO-UAW local ’ -president; John Rothrock, 39; Loran Asberry, 28, and Leonard Shelton, 28, all of New Castle. These men were arrested as a result of an investigation by state police captain*hß>bert F. Dillon of incidents in the three-month-long strife which was climaxed by a gun battle Oct. 5. Eight persons were wounded in the fight around the New Castle foundry and national guard troops moved martial law into Henry county, Hagerstown and the area of two plants at Richmond. Henry county prosecutor Fred Hall, who prepared the affidavits, said the four men are accused of “being parties of several incidents in which shots were fired from moving cars at the homes of nonstriking Perfect Circle workers.” Company and union officials agreed last month on a settlement I at Castle not unlike the offer . the company made originally. A national labor relations board bargaining agent election led to decertification of the CIOUAW locals at the two Richmond plants and, the main plant in Hagerstown. • New City Officials Take Oaths Saturday Ceremony Planned Saturday Afternoon Final plans for the informal reception and oath-takfng ceremony for Decatur's new city officials next Saturday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock were announced today. The mayor-elect, Robert D. Cole; Mrs. Mirriam Hall, clerk-treasurer-elect, the five councilmen, Ed Bauer, incumbent, and Clyde Drake, Carl Gerber, Norbert Aumann, Lawrence Kohne and city attorney-designate John De Voss, will receive the oath from Ed F. Jaberg, Adams county clerk. Preceding the taking of the oatu by each officer, the Rev. Williairi Feller, pastor of the Zion Evangels ical and Reformed church of Decatur, will deliver the invocation. ; There will be no speech making, < it was announced, alid immediately after the short ceremony, an informal reception will be held. The i event will be held” in the council room on the second floor of the city hall. The ceremony has been planned i for Saturday, but actually the new I officials will not take office until Sunday, January 1. It was decided 1 to hold the informal session on ! Saturday, many people 1 who expressed a desire to attend 1 were unable to be present on Sun- 1 day. Heads of departments and city i employes have been invited to at- * tend and the general public also has been extended an invitation. Yugoslavia's Tito Meets With Nasser CAIRO (INS) — Yugoslavia’s Marshal Tito (net today with Egyptian premier Gamal Abdell Nasser for political and economic talks. The two leaders were accompanied %y their foreign ministers; ambassadors and other officialswhen they met at Kubba Palace. INDIANA WEATHER Mostly cloudy, windy and « much colder tonight with possible snow flurries near Lake Michigan. Friday partly cloudy anc| colder with snow flurries extreme north. Low tonight 12-20 north, 20-28 south. High Friday 22-28 I north, 25-35 south, z u i

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Accuses Ike Os Interference In Red States Khrushchev Also Charges U. S. Is Hindering Peace MOSCOW (INS) — Russia’s Nikita Khrushchev accused President Eisenhower of “crude interference” in the affairs of east European Communist states. The Communist party first secretary also charged the U.S. with hindering East-West agreement on disarmament by giving priority to , Mr. Eisenhower's plan for mutual aerial inspection. The burly, outspoken Khrushchev talked before the Suprente Soviet (parliament) about the “open skies” plan and asked: “How does tjiis differ from military intelligence?" Khrushchev said the Christmas — messages broadcast to eastern Europe by both the President and secretary of state John Foster Dulles were “incompatible with the Geneva spirit.” Khrushchev said such messages lead to the “incitement of passion.” Then he added: “I speak like this unwillingly about Eisenhower whom I respect so much.” After Khrushchev spoke for one hour and 45 minutes the session adjourned until tonight when the speeches will be discussed. - ' J The President, Dulles and other leading Americans broadcast messages to the area over the facilities of the privately-supported Radio Free Europe in which they said, in essence, that the plight of east Europeans had not been forgotten and that they looked forward to the day of freedom for them. The Christmas messages were ' j condemned almost immediately by Radio Moscow. . | In commenting on the Elsenhower message, Khrushchev said the U.S. was trying to “establish capitalism in the eastern European countries by sending such Christmas messages. But it is impos- x ; sible to turn back history.” > Khrushchev, who spoke after Soviet premier Nikolai Bulganin reported on their just completed tour of south Asia, also referred to Russia’s recent hydrogen bomb test. He said he wanted to remind the West of the test and that the ' “power of the weapon was equivalent to many million tons of ordinary explosive and can be Increased.” Amid warm applause, he added that people who were trying to increase tension “should remember the results of this test.” Khrushchev asserted that Dulles supported colonialists in Asia and ’ also attacked British "colonialism.” Bulganin, in his report on their trip to India, Burma and Afghanistan, praised the neutralist nations of the area and attacked western nations and those Asian countries allied with them. Khrushchev told the 1,347 delegates in the great hall of the •Kremlin that he was in full agreement with Bulganin’s report. He defended the anti - British statements he made on the tour, saying “we said nothing offensive M against the British government.” || He said Britain “mercilessly exploited” India, Burma and Afghanistan when she ruled them. (Continued On Page Five) ————— , ® Propose Lightening Load On President WASHINGTON (INS) A high J administration source says the White House, the justice department. and other federal agencies are working out legislative proposals to lighten the President’s work load. The source said a bill to ease' . some of the President’s routine burden of state papers will be submitted to congress In early January. , ’ v -■ pMkf . •?> 4,1 j