Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 12, Decatur, Adams County, 16 January 1956 — Page 1

Vol. LIV. No. 12.

Proposed 1957 Presidential Budget

BUDGET BALANCE »StOOK. I f A A A 4> \ ’ ; f •# Surplus w^- 111 - T"u. -A . ’ <■" 1 w BUDGEI DOLLAR r |.. 3o« K-. i MMM IkHk Tmm . if Mto MHtMiMMi' ♦«‘ i /e\ 15' ,» '*■4 s ' . . i\Y it”'*™* ' AA II ifVI I ■■»-* •***■■ B«|»r towwl Sw»«t, >e i : ■ JZ ' ■ «*’ y 4<J Jr ihihs fe>«t«r *m«»f f .■• v- • zSev ' aiwsih *mn) Wtor it wilt g 0. ,..// »i» i& **** j 1 ■»«••»*•■ J . " ' 7'”/ y 25 < y 61 ' - L ' «Yal »!£s? . --.■. r X -X

DELICATE BALANCE of 1957 Fiscal Budget sent to Congress by President Eisenhower (top) displays a slight .4 surplus to the credit side of the scales. Total 165,865,000,000, spending program at home and abroad is derived mostly from individual income taxes with the lion’s share going to national security (lower photo.) '

Asks Increase In Budget To Aid Farmers Eisenhower Seeks Over Nine Billions In Loans And Grants WASHINGTON (INS) — President Eisenhower asked congress today to approve more than $9 billion in loans and grants in the 1957 fiscal year wothatfarmers "may share more equitably in the prosperity." - The gross spending figure pt 89.07 billion is 8495 million more than estimated for the current fiscal year that ends June 30. Most of the increase reflects a request to spend 8400 million on the President’s soil bank plan. While urging fund: for carrying out other parts of his overall pro ; gram, the President told congress to defeat the attempt of farm state lawmakers to restore the high rigid price supports. He said this would only "aggravate the problem” of continuing high farm surpluses. Net federal spending on farm programs is actually slated to drop 812 million to a total of 83.364 billion in the coming year. The difference between gross and net spending is what the government takes in from selling surplus commodities and loan repayments. The President predicted this income would rise from 85.2 billion this year to 85.706 billion. Recognising the drop in overall farm income in recent years, Mr Elsenhower said the farm budget "permits an intensification of our efforts to aid farmers in making the difficult readjustment from the abnormal situation of the war and postwar period to a realistic peacetime outlook.” Previous farm surpluses, he said, were wiped out by World War It and the Korean conflict, He said "vigorous" .efforts are being made to find markets at home and abroad for those now on hand and noted that one billion dollars remain fropi a 1954 authorisation dor selling these products overseas in exchange for foreign currency. Mr. Eisenhower recommended that funds available for buying farm products to remove temporary market gluts—such as exist now on pork—be hiked 840 million to a total of 8265 million. The S4OO million to be spent on the soil bank program—which still must receive congressional ,- approval — would be used to pay farmers for taking land out of production of surplus crops and either leave It idle or plant grass and trees. — Mr. Eisenhower also said -he will ask congress to approve Intermedl ate and long-term loans totalling 815 million to help part-time and low-income farmers Improve their production capabilities. '■} — ft-

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

O'Keefe Enters Plea Os Guilty In Court Pleads Guilty To Brink's Robbery BOSTON (INS) -Joseph "Specs” O’Keefe today pleaded guilty in Cuffolk superior court to an indictment charging three counts of armed robbery in the $1,218,211 Brink’s robbery of Jam 17, 1970. O’Keefe, whose "singing” last ■ week led to the arrest of six ali leged suspects hnd their indictment with himself and four others, con--1 ferred briefly with district attor- ■ ney tOarrett H. Byrne before hewas taken to the courtroom by the prosecutor and police captain . Francis GJ Wilson. ’ Judge Daniel D O’Brien granted Byrne’s request for immediate arraignment of the defendant and O’Keefe waived reading of the complaint. O’Keefe said he would waive a mental examination. Judge O’Brien granted a request of the pro&cutor that sentence be deferred and that O’Keefe be held without ball at East Cambridge jail where he has been lodged since the indictments were returned Friday by the grand jury. He was brought to Boston from Hampden county jail, Springfield, last Thursday. The indictment to which O’Keefe pleaded was on in which he and the other 10 allegedly involved in thp robbery were named. The FBI. meanwhile, was reported to have important corroborrating evidence against the suspected Brink’s bandits, in addition to the testimony of O’Keefe. Secret witnesses and a series of wire tapped gang conversations, according to the Boston American, were the reason that J- Edgar Hoover, FBI head, announced unequivocally that the Brink’S robbery “has been solved.” Legal opposition was anticipated when Suffolk county district attornew Garrett H. Byrne makes an expected request of federal authorities to arraign accused gaiig members in the state courts. Wire tap evidence is admissable in Massachusetts courts but not in federal courts. , $ Local Lady's Mother Dies At New Haven Mrs. Carrie M. Null, 72, died at 8:45 p. m. Sunday at her home in New Haven following a heart attack. Surviving are her husband. Bird Null: two sons, James of route”"”?. Fort Wayne, and Floyd of Fort Wayne: three daughter*, Mrs. Ruth Hoonengardner of Waynedale. Mrs. Edith Soliday of Decatur and Mrs. Iva Wann of near Antwerp, O r nine grandchildren and five great-grand-children. e. - The body was removed to the E. Harner & Son-funeral home at ’ New Hsven. Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p. m. Wed- 1 nesday at the New Haven Methodist church. ’ with , burial tn the IOOF cemetery at New Haven. : r —-,--v-i ,11 ? I.V—- T-i- —■ “

Jury Probe Os Toll Bribery Is Near End Indications Point Little Likelihood Os Indictments ~ INDIANAPOLIS (INS) —The Marion county grand Jury today virtually ended its* investigation of charges that state auditor Curtis Rardin solicited a bribe from Albert J. Wedeking, director of the Indiana toll road commission. All indications were that no one would get hurt. -W‘ Wedeking has alleged that Rardin sought money in exchange for his finance board membership vote in favor of transferring $67,000 from Indiana highway commission funds to the toll roadbody to finance a survey for a north-south pay road. Rardin's chief deputy, Allen Lindley, testified before the jurors today and afterwards said to reporters: I "Mr. Rardin definitely is innocent He is perhaps naive, but innocent." , - Strengthening Rardin’s contention that he conferred with Wedeking in the latter’s Claypool hotel room merely to try to trap the toll road official, Lindley said: "Mr- Rardin said to me: ‘There is something fishy about the toll road. I’m going to find out what it is'.” Rollie M. Moren, examiner of the state board of accounts, another witness today, said be found discrepancies in accounts of Rardin while he was Jasper county auditor./ Lieut Gov. Harold W- Handley and secretary of state Crawford F. Barker also appeared briefly before the Jurors. They said they had met with Rardfn about the time of the purported bribe solicitation and that he appeared "nervous and emotional." Parker said it was “common knowledge” about the state house concerning the Rardin-Wedeking meeting, but added that details were “vague and meager.” Rardin admitted he talked about finances with Wedeking but added he was only trying to trap the versatile highway expert because he suspected something was wrong with pay road opera- . lions. The men were alone in the room. It is apparently a case of one man's word against another’s. The Jurors have the power to criticize conduct of officials without indicting, and that may be the course they will pursue. New Five-Year Plan Announced By Reds Plans To Surpass Free World Might MOSCOW (INS)—The West has been warned that the Soviet Union through "peaceful economic competition” plans to "overtake and surpass” the industrial might of the free world. Russia Sunday announced its sixth and most ambitious five-year pl®. setting goals for 1960 that would bring the Soviet Union to roughly twe-thirds the industrial production of the U.S. in 1955. The plan ala% places heavy emphasis on tHOp development of atomic energy for peaceful uses, particularly electric power. The plan calls for a 65 per cent increase in total Soviet industrial output and also sets as a goal for 1960: A 51 per cent increase in steel production, a 52 per cent boost in coal, an 88 per cent jump in electrical output, an almost 100 per cent increase In oil production. A network of atomic power stations, construction of an atomic- ( powered icebreaker, doubling of home construction and meat pro- ' duction. I A 60 per cent boost in consumer , goods production, a 30 per cent j increase in Russian wages, exten- ' (Continu«M> on warn might) Man Rides Motorized > Ice Sled To Death CULVER. In<J. (INS) —A 23-year-ol d Mish awake man died in an < unusual wintertime accident. i The victim was James Lee j Grubbs, who rode a motorised- ice i sled to his death near the center of Lake Maxfnknckee Saturday. i Efforts of witnesses to save 1 Grubbs after the sled bad crashed i through the tee caused the near- > drowning of a would-be rescuer. < Walker Wlnskrw, whose sail-pew- I ered Ice boat also went through i the cie. - :

ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Monday, January 16, 1956.

Balanced Budget Is Sent To Congress By President Eisenhower - $

Fraud Charges Are Leveled By Senate Group Senate Committee Levels Charges On Several Persons - WASHINGTON (INS) - Charges of graft, corruption, fraud, collusion, chicanery, bribery and -inefficiency in military cap procurement were leveled against several persons today fay the senate investigation subcommittee. , Harry Lev, millionaire Chicago hatmaker who couldn't remember how he spent $214,000 in two years, drew prime attention in a report by the group headed by Sen. John L. McClellan (D-Ark.) The report was based on public hearings held in Washington last May. June and July. In a statement accompanying the report, McClellan said: “The subcommittee intends to expand its investigation into procurement matters and to examine into other instances of waste, inefficiency, fraud and corruption.” Pointing to his group’s demand for “prompt” criminal action against the guilty parties, he added that the inquiry “shoqjd serve notice to others guilty of similar infractions that these practices will I ftt be tolerated.” --:** *:« Lev, the report said, used "brib- ' ery, collusion and connivance” to get the biggest armed services hat contract in history, a two million dollar award in 1953 for 6,853,000 white sailor caps. , In his “reprehensible, amoral conduct,’ the subcommittee declared, Lev has "forfeited any right to engage in future business with the government.". Defense department claims of 8454,035 are pending against Lev ■and his affiliate companies, the report noted, while 847,440 is being sought from other cap firms. McClellan’s group charged that Lev and some other contractors had "improper relationships” with a long list of present and former government procurement personnel, some of whom have been fired. Others are still on the federal -payroll, the report added, only be(Oonunuea on Page Klgnt) Report Decatur Lady In Serious Condition Mrs. Christina B ; Wicks, well known Decatur lady who suffered a fractured hip in a fall at her home on Seventh street recently, is a patient at Adams county memorial hospital. The condition of Mrs- Wicks is regarded as serious. Edward Hower Dies After Long Illness Funeral Services Tuesday Afternoon Edward E. .Hower, 69, of 716 Marshall street, died at 7:30 o'clock Sunday morning at the Adams county memorial hospital following an illness of two years. He was born in Adarts county Sept. 9, 1886, a son of John T. and Sarah E. Smith-Hower, and was married to Flossie Hitchcock, June 20, 1925. Mr. Hower was a member of the Trinity Evangelical United Brethren church and a former employe of the Decatur Lumber Co. _ Surviving are his wife; one son. Glen (Jack) Hower of - and a Neffle Sheller Os Huhtington. One brother and one sister are deceased. —- Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Zwick funeral home and at 2 p.m. at the Trinity Evangelical United brethren church, the Rev. John E. Chambers officiating. Burial win be tn the Decatur cemetery. Friends may cal! at the funeral home until time of the services.

Knowland To Delay Bid For Nonminalion Withholds Open Bid Until February 15 WASHINGTON (INS) — Senate Republican leader William F. Knowland appears willing now to withhold any open bid for the GOP presidential nomination until at least Feb. 15. x ( The only exception would be if President Eisenhower announced before mid-February that he is not running for a second term. And if Mr. Eisenhower agrees to run again, Knowland will throw his full support to the Chief Executive. The California Republican, appearing on NBC’s televised "Meet The Press,” definitely indicated he will wait another month if the President makes no statement on his future plank in the meantime. Knowland said: "I believe that in the event the President is not a candidate, that should be known before the primaries are nullified. His staff has indicated Feb. 15 as a date which would be rdhson for Republicans to wait patiently until then.” J-..,.'.' This was in reference to another lull medical examination which Mr. Eisenhower will receive In mid-February, on the basis of which he should learn if he is physically fit for nearly five more ■ years in the White House. The senator however, thqit any GOP nominee — Mr. Eisenhower or someone else — will have to wage a vigorous campaign to win in November. Meanwhile, political /{reworks over secretary of state John Foster Dulles’ Shrink. of . war” statements continued to explode. Presidential adviser Harold E. Stassen charge 4 Democratic presidential aspirant Adlai E. Stevenson with a “deliberate distortion" of U. S. foreign policy. Stevenson charged Saturday that riulles was playing "Russian roulette” with the fate of the American people. Stassen declared in a statement that the administration foreign policy is "correctly and clearly portrayed” only in official statements and in deeds. Dulles, in a magazine article, was quoted last week as saying the ad(Continued on Page Five) One Man Burns To Death In Collision Two Trucks Collide Near Butler Today BUTLER, Ind. (INS) —One man was burned ,to death and a second man was badly injured in a twotruck col listen which set-fire to a barn near U. S. 6 two mites west of Butter todayIndiana state police identified the dead man as Jerry Higgenbottom, 33, of Kendallville, a driver for the Uhl Oil company. Injured was Charles H. Dickerhoff, 66, of Butter, who suffered cuts, bruises and possible interna) injuries. i , Dickeroff said that a 5000-gallon fuel oil truck driven by Higgenbottom struck his pick-up truck from the rear as he was driving along the highway in. front of the home of Elmer H. Anglin. \ The two vehicles then continued down the highway about 100 feet and piled into a bam bn the Anglin farm, which is near the highway Higgenbottom was burned inside the barn, but the other driver escaped Jbe_flames. -... . SHate trooper said they were unable to get into the barn for, _ nearly two hours to find the' license -plates of the Uhl truck and thus identify the driver. ~ Fire departments from Butter and Waterloo aided in confining the fire to the barn, which was a complete loss. Anglin said hay, farm machinery and some hogs were lost in the conflagration, alon? with the bam. State police said the highway was dry at the point of the crash and they were unsure what caused the accident

Ike Asks For Increase In Foreign Aid - Warns Threat Os Nuclear Warfare Faced By World WASHINGTON (INS) — President Eisenhower asked congress today to spend $4,292 billion for foreign military and economic aid in the 1957 fiscal year because “our very survival” may depend on the strength of our allies. Mr. Elsenhower warned that the thrent of nuclear warfare "still confronts the world” and said the U.S. and her free world allies must dig in for a long period of “uncertainty.” His foreign aid proposal was SIOO pillion greater than for the current fiscal year. It included 82.5 billion for military aid and 81-792 billion for economic assistance. The President used his budget message to congress to outline in blunt, clear words a foreign policy based on two pillars of power. The first was the pSWter of the A-bomb and H-bomb to deter an aggressor 'or permit massive retaliation against attack. The second was the military and economic strength of allied nations. He “dur future prosperity, perhaps our survival, will be linked with the strength of our allies in the development of good will rather than fear and distrust among nations.” The President asked congress to step up appropriations for foreign aid to 84.86 billion to permit future planning and contracting so that military equipment can continue to be delivered at the current rate. The higher appropriation request compares with approximately 82.7 billion appropriated in each of the (Continued on Page Five) David Hullinger Is Taken By Death David Hullinger, 83, a resident of the Adams county home for the past 25 years, died at 12:30 p. m. Saturday at a Bluffton nursing home, where he had been a patient for three months. He was a retired laborerThere are no near surviving relatives. Funeral services #lll be held at 1:30 p: m. Tuesday at the Black funeral home, the Rev. Lawrence T. Norris officiating. Burial will be in the Ray cemetery Friends may call •at the funeral home until ttthe of the services. Mrs. Eva Schumm Dies This Morning Funeral Services Thursday Afternoon Mrs. Eva Schumm, 72. lifelong resident of Harrison township. Van Wert county, O„ died at 8:5( o’clock this morning at her home two miles south of Middlebury, 0.. after a one-day illness. She was born in Harrison tow* ship Sept. 28, 1884. a daughter of William and Sabina Springer-My-ers, And was married to C. A. Schumm Feb. 9, 1905. Her husband died Nov. 1, 1955. Mrs. Schumm wm a highly active number of the Wren EvanSurviving are two brothers, Melvin Myers of Syracuse. N. ¥., and Wert Myers of Los Angeles, Calif. Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p. m. Thursday at the home and at 2 p. m. at the Wren Evangelical United Brethren church, the Rev. Walter Purdy officiating. Interment will be in the Wren mausoleum. The body, brought to the Zwick funeral borne, will be returned to the Schuum residence, where friends , may ciill after. 7 p. m. Tuesday.

Westinghouse Strike Goes Into 14th Week No Indications Any Settlement Is Near PITTSBURGH (INS) — The Westinghouse Electric Corp, strike went into its 14th week today without any indication that a exilement is near despite two days of secret talks between top union and company officials. [. James B. Carey, president of the h International Union of Electrical .. Workers, and <Robert D. Blasier, a j Westinghouse vice president, endr ed a meeting Sunday without com- , ment. Labor observers believe that } federal mediator John Murray kept ; them talking as long as possible with the hope that some basis f might be reached for negotiating a . settlement. It was the first Sunday session since last November. s The 44,000 employes represented » by the TUE walked out at 29 plants • last October 17 to back up their > demands for a 15-cents hourly increase. t In Columbus, 0., today, heatings t are to be held for 86 strikers who r battled police and sheriffs deputies during a mass demonstration r at the Westinghouse plant last ( Jan. 3. A union member died, apparently following a heart attack, during the melee. The independent United Electri--1 cal Workers Union whose 10,000 - members walked out of IP plants a < week after the IUE will send its ’ top bargainers into a meeting wito - company officials this morning in 1 Pittsburgh. The UE also wants a t 15-cents hourly pay increase. Westinghouse is asking both unY ions to scrap the current contract and sign a five-year pact. B t '• * i Girl Scout Balloon ‘ Sale Aids Campaign $231.36 Is Netted By March Os Dimes The Girl Scout balloon sale cont ducted Saturday in Decatur’s busi- > ness district brought in a total of . $231.36 to the 1956 March of Dimes r polio fund now being solicited in Decatur and Adams county. I A committee including Mrs. Byron Smith, Mrs. Don Cochran and , . Mrs. Thearl Stults were assisted . by the adult leaders of troops five, six, 18 and 19 in arranging the balloon sale. The American Legion home served as headquarters. The girls who assisted included Judy Tutewiler, Janet Habegger, Janben Augsburger, Patty Kinerk, Joyce Vian, Janet Gase, Candy Johnson, Mary Eichenauer. Evelyn Snyder, Carol Kless, Shirley Mays, Judy Sexton, Donna Carey, Sharon Baker, Mary Beckman, Margaret Richard, Ellen Houk, Donna Bixler, Cheryl Bollenbacher. Alice Schroeder, Barbara Addy, Helen Walters, Donna Corey, Nancy Gephart. Alyce Lankenau. Missy Mayclin, Theresa Hain, Cynthia Collier, Marilyn Scott, Virginia Foor, Judy Foreman, Coleen Kelly, Cynthia Cravens, Sarah Sutton, Janet Baker, Mary Schurger. Paniella Lister, Carol Brezovaeki, Nancy Callow, Sally Hahn. Ann Rosenberger, Margaret Azbell, Befnadine Eiting, Ruth Ann Brown. Pamella Anderson, Dianna Davidson, Donna Shoaf, Dianna Deßolt, Susy Mayclin and Julia Halterman. Beginning this evening the Girl ■ SriqiitH- frnrn tronpyt ...gna., fjgro /tnd J nine will be in the lobby of the Adams theater each evening through Sunday, Jan. 22, to solicit for the March of Dimes fund. They will also be at the theater Sunday afternoon. INDIANA WEATHER Mostly cloudy tonight and Tuesday. Occasional snow flurries tonight and in north and east portions Tuesday. A little colder. Low tonight 10-16 south to 15-25 north- High Tuesday 20-25 south, 25-30 north.

Five Cents

Plan Slice Os $574 Million From Deficit Calls For Spending $65,865 Billions At Home And Abroad WASHINGTON (INS) —President Elsenhower sent congress today a delicately balanced 1957 fiscal year budget that calls for spending $65,865 billion at home arid abroad while slicing >574 million from the public debt in the next 18 months. While not closing the door on possible election-year tax cuts, the President said they should come only if they would not reduce federal income below spending. Mr. Eisenhower asked for funds to continue building up western military might, including record outlays for atomic and guided missile programs. He also*sought increased money for foreign aid, more school rooms, better highways, an agriculture soil bank and expanded medical research. In this way, Mr. Eisenhower said, the nation can achieve its objectives of “securing a lasting peace and sustaining widespread prosperity” while maintaining its financial strength and stability. The President said federal inconbe will reach an all-time peacetime high of $66.3 billion in the 1957 fiscal year that begins July 1 because of “significant” increases in revenue resulting from “our present 'unprecedented prosperity.” This leaves a surplus of $435 million for the coming year. Instead of the $2.4 billion defi cit predicted for the current fiscal year, the President said the 1956 budget will show a surplus of about $231,000,000. Os the $666 million in surpluses that are expected to accumulate between now and July 1, 1957, the President recommended that $574 million be used to start whittling down the national debt. The Chief Executive, noting the many long-range programs to which the government is committed, asked for" authority to obligate the government to spend $66.29 billion, much of it to be spent in future years. This is an ( increase of $4.3 billion over this ’ year. Mr. Eisenhower’s revision of the last budget submitted by former President Truman showed a deficit of $3.11 billion. The second, for the year ending last June 30. had a deficit of $4.18 billion. From 1930 until this year, only the 1947, 1948 and 1951 budgets were balanced. ....J . Interest payments on the national debt alone will cost the government an estimated $7 billion in the coming year—or almost $42 for every man, woman and child in the country. With this in mind, the President argued against tax cuts now, commenting: “Under conditions of high peacetime prosperity, such as now exist, we can never justify going further into debt to give ourselves a tax cut at the expense of our children.” Whether the government’s income exceeds its spending at the end of the coming fiscal year depends, of course; on congress. In the first place, the President did not include funds in his spending program for an expanded nationwide superhighway system although he implored congress to authorize the program itself. 'Any- additional tunds for thus (Continued on Page Five) BULLETIN CONCORD, N. H. (INS) — The name Os President Elsenhower was entered today in New Hampshire’s March 13 - preferential primary — the first in the nation. Governor Lane Dwinell filed a petition with the secretary of state bearing 800 names. formal filing took place before a battery of newsreel and television cameras. w