Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 26, Decatur, Adams County, 1 February 1956 — Page 1

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HST GETS WARM N. Y. WELCOME wOßßStri' r ‘ J*. • GREETED an he stepped from his train by a huge assemblage of reporters. photographers, radio and TV men, former President Trpman beams bis pleasure as daughter Margaret (right) bids her parents welcome to New York. On hand also was N. Y. secretary of state Carmine De Sapio (center) and other officials. Mr. Truman addressed a SIOO-a-plate dinner of the state Democratic committee Tuesday evening. ? 1

Urges Secrecy;, Be Lifted On Nuclear Power Citizens' Panel In i Recommendation To U.S. Government WASHINGTON (INS) — A toplevel, citizens panel placed before congress today a report urging an end to much of the secrecy surrounding the atom and government financing, if necessary, to provide nuclear power. The nine-member group, headed by publisher Robert McKinney of Santa Fe, N.M,, declared that all Information concerning peacetime atomic . reactors should be non-se-cret, and that a free market should be established for uranium. The report conceded Jhat there may be rwd for secrecy .about U.S. attempt* to harness the enormous heat of the H-bomb, because such power devices could produce vast quantities of atomic explosives,. ■ . '• ..... The panel recommended the release of as much information as possible, bwoever, and declared a “maximum interplay of ideas” is needed to achieve hydrogen generators that would operate at ternperatufWTrottef than the sun. Walter Reuther, UAW-CIO president, who served on the panel appointed last March to survey progress in peacetime atomic energy, filed a separate opinion, declaring: "We are not moving fast enough.” Reuther said the U.S. is lagging behind other countries ip atomic power, and that this could be decisive in the cold war. He said only one station to generate electricity from the atom, at Shipping port,-Pa., has been assured for the, U.S. so far. McKinney, at a news conference accompanying, release of the report, listed plans for seven large atomic power plants. He said these are the responsible plans of responsiblepeople, and that the panel hopes and believes they will be built. < He added that the report is clear that if private industry fails to “take the full risk and bprdens" in these projects, the panel favors moving in with government funds to build one large demonstration power plant for each of the several reactor types. ■ The report suggested that the’ government might agree to buy certain quantities of uranium at unstated prices for a period of years, but McKinney said the panel favored a completely free market for this metal eventually. He said the members agreed that the price of uranium fuel’ should be released publicly, and that the question of whether this would enable an enemy to calculate the Size of the U.S. A-bomb stockpile was “not material.” The two volume, 900-page report ineluded the most complete picture yet presented on how hydrogentype generators may be bullL One suggestion was that electrical or magnetic forges might hold in suspension gases in which temperatures of "several hundred million degrees" would be generated by hydrogen fusion reaction. The temperature at center of the sun is estimated at 38 million degrees. * The report said no ordinary container could confine such heat, but that electric or magnetic fields ''conceivably” could act to insulate the walls of the reaction reeeel. The report said that despite enormous temperatures "thermo(OonUaued ou Fags Five)

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Another Heavy Snow Predicted In State New Storm Forecast Starting Late Today INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — Any groundhog in Indiana who tries to see his shadow Thursday may have to dig his way out of another snow blizzard. Another heavy snow storm was expected to be dumped on the remains of the last two storms. Northern and central Indiana will get two to five inches of snow, while the southern area is hit with freezing rain and sleet, according ' to the Indianapolis weather bureau’s forecasters. They predict the snow and (reeling rain will start in late today or tonight and continue with occa- ‘ aional snow Thursday. Indiana roads, already hazardous in spots from the Sunday snow, may become even more dan- . gerous? to motorists with the new weather assault Not only nignways but sidewalks and driveways are death i traps. At least five men died of heart attacks induced by shoveling the last deposit of snow away from their walks and drives. A second death was added to a Gary railroad crossing tragedy when Calvin Jones, SO, died at Gary Methodist hospital. He and Ernest R. Myers, 83, both of Crown Point, were in a car struck by a train Monday. Myers died instantly. 1 Thermometers did not drop as low overnight as weathermen had predicted. Fort Wayne had a low of seven, and South Bend, nine, but mid-state in Indianapolis, the low was 16, and at Evansville, 32. Tonight's temperature lows are expected to range between 22 and 34, w’hich is about the same as today’s likely maximums. £ , Stale Republican Strife Is Revived Handley Again Goes Over Craig's Head < INDIANAPOLIS (INS) —The Republican factional strife was revived at the state house todayIt was a case of the anti-Craig mice playing while the Craig cat was away.=— .... ' In the absence of Governor George N. Craig, his executive secretary, Horace M Coats, again became involved in a battle with Lieut Gov. Harold W- Handley, and anti-Craig leader. The conflict arose because Handley called a special meeting of the state board of finance, while Craig was in Washington. The board transferred >36,800,000 from the general fund to the tuition support fund to pay teachers’ salariesHandley said he acted after state treasurer John Petters, another anti-Craigite, aksed him to do so and after attorney general Edwin K- Steers, still -hnother Craig opponent, opined be had a legal right to call the meeting. But Coats said: . "A state supreme court opinion in the IW' S held that the lieutenant governor can take over only when the governor died or is unable to serve, which means losing his mind* Once before, in the governor's absence, Coats and Hanley‘'clashed. While <3Hlg wee fishing off the Bahamas, Coats sent the national guard to the Perfect Cfrele Cot*poration strike th New Castle over the objections of the lieutenant I governor.”

City .Officials: Study City's Power Problem Intensive Study Os City Power Problems Underway By Leaders City officials this week tackled the city’s number one problem, that of providing light and power to the area it serves in as great a daily volume as the demand requires. Lester Pettibone, light and power superintendent, who several years ago issued a warning that "a serious and critical problem could develop in the near future,” has been authorized to investigate all possible sources whereby the city could add to its power output This includes obtaining prices on additional diesel equipment; prices of additional steam gener- ■ ating equipment and contact with private .power companies with a possible view of buying the necessary power. All phases of the situation will be explored, according to the superintendent, and a full report will be givep to the light and power committee of the council and later to the full council. According to the last report Issued by the departments the 'three , steam turbine generating units - have a daily capacity of 8,600 kilo- • watts and the single diesel generating unit has a capacity of 3,810 i kilowatts. This makes a total of . 11,810 kilowatts daily. The steam units have single capacities of c 5,000, 2,000 and 1,000 kilowatts. One is held in reserve at all pos- ■ sible times, because of the necee- : sity of cleaning and repairing the . other two. The report snows that with this . set-up, the firm generating capac- . ity of the entire Decatur power . system is 6,810 kilowatts. The output of power during each month of 1855 was more than 1,000 kllo- ‘ watts, above the firm capacity. Providing sufficient power was. ' made possible by using a|! possible units during the periods of peak loads. Pettibone pointed out, as he has ; in several reports, that the danger ; lies, in the age of the steam units. ’ Any of the three could go com--1 pletely out of service at any time, because of their age. Little money has been expended ’ for anything more than normal upkeep of the steam units in recent I years. This is probably because’of an overall plan' to, at a future date, swing entirely over to diesel units. "Cost is high for non units of ■ either type" the superintendent I said. It is believed by officials; close to the power situation, that steps must be taken soon to form ■ a policy of improvement to assure the area with proper power facil- • ities. In addition to serving Decatur, the local plant also sells power to Monroe and has numerous rural lines in Adams and Allen counties. Official* are concerned over the problem and have authorized Pettibone to ascertain expansion and protection costs and report as early as possible. The question of municipal power against privately manufactured power also wifi enter the picture. Those in favor of buying the additional power from some private . utility point to several neighboring . cities which supplement their own capacity with the purchase of all needed power, and show an annual profit. There are others who believe that a municipality should have the facilities to manufacture its power exclusively. Pettibone said that he would have a preliminary report a» soon as he received replies to inquiries of estimates from manufacturers and private operating utilities, which are in the mail. Small Barn Destroyed By Fire Last Night A small barn on the Jess Edgell farm a mile north of Monroe on U. S. highway 27 was destroyed by fire Tuesday night. The blaze also destroyed the contents of the barn which included hay, straw, equipment, about 150 chickens and a sow and several pigs. Decatur firemen were called when the fire was discovered shortly after midnight Mt they were unable to save the structure. No estimate -■ on the loss was available and the cause of the fire has not been determined. It was the second ran of the night for the Decatur department They were relied St about t:3O p m. when a track caught fit* en 13th street to treat of Saylor** Motor eompshy. All of th* wiring in the track was burned.

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American And British Leaders Turn To Tough Hydrogen Bomb Issue

Russia Ousts Kruglov From Inferior Post No Explanation Os Kruglov Ouster As Interior Minister MOSCOW (INS) —The Soviet Union announced without tlon today the removal of Col. Gen j Sergei N. Kruglov as minister oil interior. A brief statement in the official Soviet press said only that Kruglov had been “released from Ms duties” and that Nikolai P. Dudorov had been appointed to the post Dudorov is a relative “unknown” to foreigners. Kruglov, a veteran political official, served in the ministry since 1941 and headed it on two separate occasions. He was minister from 1946 until March of 1953, when the government was reorganized following the death of Premier Stalin. Kruglov reassumed the post in July, 1953, when the then minister, ; Lavrenti P. Beria, was arrested on charges of "criminal anti-state aci tivities.” Beria later was r Dudorov was mentioned in the press last June as head of a partment in tie Moscow offices of the central committee of the Soviet Communist party, which is headed by first secretary Nikita 3. Khrushchev. Western observers noted that Kruglov's removal is the latest in a series Os government shifts throughout the Soviet Union. Las| month, the premier of the 'Russian Republic of the Union was demoted. Earlier In January, the premier of Lithuania-was removed from office- And in December, the first secretary of the Communist party in the Uzbek was dismissed. Westerners speculated that there might be some connection between these recent changes and the opening of the All-Union congress of the Soviet Communist party. The ousted interior minister, 53, is a strongly-built six-footer, and wa knsown among the foreign news corps as an affable conversationalist at Moscow receptions. He was responsible for security arrangements at the wartime Yalta, Potsdam and Tehran conferences of the Big Three. For that work, he was awarded (Conttnued on raws Blxj . Hotel At Marion Is Destroyed By Fire Adjoining Building Is Also Destroyed ■ MARION, Ind- (INS) —A 1350,000 fire which destroyed a hotel and an adjoining building in downtown Marion was conquered by firemen from seven cities early today without loss of life.Some 60 persons were in the Marion Hotel at the time the fire began, but only one was hurt, and he suffered minor injuries. One hotel occupant, Harry Wotring, 79, was overcome by smoke and had to be Rescued from the thfud floor. he was treated at the scene. Both the hotel and the adjoining structure occupied by the’Nationa! Holiness Mission Society were heavily damaged. Walls of the hotel collapsed during the fire, but again, serious injury was avoidedBoth structures were four stories high and constructed of brick The fire broke out in the basement of the hotel in a section where 30 tons of coal were stored. It spread rapidly into an abandoned elevator shaft and then to all four floors of the hotel, and thence to the adjacent church building. Some 300 firemen from Marlon, Wabash. Kokomo, Hartford City, taa City, Swayzee and Fowlerton helped fight the major fire la freezing temperatures. . I

Open Vole Saturday ■ On Farm Proposals Senate Committee Planning On Vote WASHINGTON (INS)—The senate agriculture committee has agreed to start voting at 10 a.m. (EST) Saturday on legislation aimed at raising farm prices. Sen. Milton R. Young (R N.D), a committeeman, predicted today ftfie unit “will give President Eisenhower everything he asked for and probably more liberal provisions than he asked to dispose of 'farm surpluses." But Young told an Interviewer he believes the committee also will approve 90 per cent price supports | on top quality of wheat and cotton. The administration bitterly opposes a return to the high supports, which It blames for the accumula tion of hug-, stocks of excess farm commodity i. Young said the price support provision will be flexible rather than rigid because it will be tied to quality. In this respect, it would be a compromise but one that is viewed as not at all satisfactory to the administration. Sen. Clinton P. Anderson (D of N. Mex.), who opposes 90 per cent supports, indicated tp newsmen he thinksdjigher price props are being pressed to win votes in the presidential elections. ;■■■■/ 1 1 The support issue lias spHit party lines but Democratic congressional leaders all favor high price props; A veto would give them campaign fuel in the farm belt. Young said he believes the committee will approve wide discretion for .agriculture secretary Ezra’ Taft Benson to put the Soil bank plan into effect. This was a major part of the President’s nine-point farm program. New French Cabinet Takes Over Duties 1 Guy Mol let Granted Assembly Support J- • - PARIS (INS) -T- French premier Guy Mollet presented his streamlined left-of-center coalition cabinet to President (Rene Coty today and mapped plans for a trip to Algeria next week. Coty congratulated the Socialist premier and his 12 ministers on, the heavy majority by which they won investiture in the national assembly shortly after midnight Tuesday night. The 50-year-old Mollet indicated to newsmen his cabinet will hold its first meeting on Friday. At that time he will seek formal approval of his plan to go to Algeria on a fact-finding mission. Mollet, first member of his party to head a government in more than eight years, won investiture for his Republican front cabinet early today With a skillfully constructed speech before the national assembly. The vote was 420 to 71, with 83 abstentions. Among those from outside the coalition who gave Mollet their votes were 141 Communists and 64 members of the Catholic Popular Republicans (MRP). The chief opposition came from the extreme right-wing Poujadists who cast 49 of the 71 “noes.” Mollet’s large majority served to demonstrate legislative backing for the premier’s announced policy of pacification and reform in Algeria while maintaining the indissoluble union of France and the revolt-torn North African land. Pierre Mendes-France, head of the Radical Socialists and co-lead-er of the Republican front, is mihister without portfolio in the new government. Mollet gave cabinet posts to five Socialists, four Radicals. The other posts went to smaller groups on the left add to Catroux. Th* premier won the Communists’ support even though he announced he had not made and would not make any commitments to the reds. He also called for 'firm (Continued on Page Five)

'Westinghouse, I Union Meet On Lengthy Strike Federal Mediator Summons Meeting Over Long Strike WASHINGTON (INS)—Management and labor officials involved in the 108-day Westinghouse strike met today with federal mediation director Joseph F. Finnegan but no announcement as tb their progress had been made as of 1 p.m. j Finnegan sharply criticized the delay in settling the prolonged strike Tuesday and summoned management-labor officials to his office in an effort to break the deadlock. Finnegan sent an identical telegram to Westinghouse vice-presi-dent Robert V. Blaster at Pittsburgh and to president James B. Carey of the International Union of Electrical Workers in Washington, asking that they meet with him today. Declaring that the purpose of the meeting will be to review the status of Westinghouse strike negotiations to date, Finnegan said: ‘"phe responsibility for this intolerable stoppage of upwards of 108 days. ’direetly affecting more than 5,000 employees, rests In the hands of both labor and management representatives, and it is inconceivable to me that this strike cannot be resolved, if both parties are willing to. lend their efforts to genuine collective bargaining.” Fhinegan said that regional mediation director Robert Donnahoo for Pennsylvania and adjacent states, and mediator John R. Murray would attend the meeting. Murray has borne the brunt of the job of trying to bring the parties together. LaPrehsq Resumes Publication Friday BUENOS* AIRES (INS) — Argentina’s great independent newspaper La Prensa will resume publication Friday, more than five years after it was closed by deposed dictator Juan Peron. Baek in the director's publisher chair is Dr. Alberto Gainza Paz, who returned from exile in the U.S. last December. Appeal Is Issued On March Os Dimes Decatur $350 Short Os Announced Goal Lse Mgllonee, general chairman of the 19&6 March of Dimes cam paign in Decatur, has issued an appeal to organizations of the city to help Decatur reach its $3,00b goal in the campaign. ■ — i He pointed out that the city is still about $350 short of the goal and that, although the drive officially ended Tuesday, campaign officials still hope to raise the total to $3,000. Mallonee added that only the Lions and Rotary clubs have con tributed to the March of Dimes. He urged that other organizations in the city make no effort to contribute to the fund. The money collected locally is used to aid local pqlio victims as welp as to assist in the research and, rehabilitation programs of the National .Foundation of Infantile Paralysis/ ’ Mrs. Robert Hess, chairman of the Adams county chapter of the foundation, has pointed out that in spite of the Salk vaccine discovery, the fight against polio is not won. She stated that the vaccine has come too .late for thousands of persons who need expansive treat- : meat. She- also cpmmented that polio research will be continued,; until -the dread disease is completely wiped out.

■ -W iBiM ■■ Lewis H. Worthman Lewis H. Worthman Seeks Reelection Commissioner Will Seek Reelection Lewis H. Worthman, prominent Preble township farmer and member of the Adams county board of commissioners, first district, today announced his intention to be a candidate for reeldction. subject to the decision of IWiocratic voters Worthman; who owns his.own farm in Preble township, is well known throughout the county and also has been active in the northern Indiana county commissioners association. He is a member of the Magley Reformed church. Long interested tn county highways, drainage, agricultural programs and civic affairs, commissioner Worthman said that he planned to make an active campaign for reelection. .......... “If successful”, ne said, “I will continue to serve all the people of the county to the best of my ability.” Worthman, during his tenure of office, has served as both president and vice president of the Adams county commissioners. Governor Os Oregon Dies Tuesday Night Collapses During Political Confab PORTLAND, Ore. (INS) — Gov. Paul L. Patterson of Oregon collapsed and died Tuesday night, presumably as a result of a heart attack. He was 55. Patterson collapsed during a meeting with a group of leading Republicans at the Arlington club in downtown Portland. ~~... The governor’s death will have national repercussions, for only last i Saturday he had announced that he would seek the United States senate seat now held by Sen. Wayne Morse (D.. Ore.) Republican party leaders had urged him to oppose Morse, whom they bitterly want to unseat because he switched parties after being elected as a Republican. - A doctor reached the governor’s side within five or six minutes of his collapse and pronounced him dead. Earlier in the evening he had spoken at the opening of a fourstate meeting of Assemblies of God members. Patterson became governor in January, 1953, when Douglas McKay resigned the post to become secretary of the interior in President Eisenhower’s Cabinet. Patterson was president of the state senate. in which he had served since 1945. He was elected in 1954 for a four-year term. Elmo Smith of John Day, in eastern Oregon, who was president of the-state senate at the last session. nqw becomes governor. - Patteysop wae a lawyer at Hillsboro./pra- before becoming gov.ernor, He was a World War I veteran.

Leaders Reach Final Phase Os Cold War Talks Today Is Qeadline Set For Close Os Washington Confab ■ / ■> s V * ■ • • WASHINGTON (INS) —British and American leaders turned today to the knotty problem of hydrogen bomb tests as they reached the final phase of their cold war strategy conferences. British prime minister Sir Anthony Eden met at the White House with secretary of state John Foster Dulles, British foreign secretary Selwyn Lloyd and «U. S. atomic energy chairman Lewis Strauss. The negotiators worked at a frantic pace to wind Vp their business by today's deadline. From 10 a. m. (EST) until nearly noon, Dulles, Lloyd and their principal advisers worked on a wide range of problems in a meeti ing in Dulles’ office. 1 Lloyd and the British delega- ’ tion. almost ran from Dulles’ off fice to elevators to rush downstairs into limousines waiting to ' speed them to the White House. > Caught on the run, Lloyd told ’ newsmen: “We Have. bepn working very HUnT cm a variety of subi- ** Just before the meeting at the state department ended, Guy Mallard, assistant private secretary to Eden, hurried to the state department with a message from the prime minister. The nature of the message was not fflsctosStl. ‘Among the decisions that will be taken today will be: 1. Whether to put United Nations forces in the Middle East to prevent war between Israel ahd the Arabs. 2. Whether to embark on a broader program of economic aid to Middle Eastern states and particularly to members of the Baghdad pact. 3. Whether to support a limitation on atomic or hydrogen bomb tests. . Dulles and Lloyd are to leave the state department after their morning talks to go to the White House to meet with British prime minister Sir Anthony Eden. President Eisenhower will not sit in on this conference. The President and Eden are still spHt on how to deal with Red China. However, they are close to agreement on other vital problems being considered in their talks. Included among the issues of near-accord are a policy toward the Middle East, plans to develop and strengthen western European unity and what Russia is trying to do and how she is trying to do it. At the conclusion of their afternoon meeting, the American and British leaders plan to issue a I communique or joint declaration on the results of their talks. Tuesday’s meeting ended withput any final decisions on any one of the many subjects that hate been discussed. The groundwork lias been laid, however, for agreement on most Issues. One of the most pressing of these problems was the possibility of trying to organize a United Nations military force te stand guard between Israel and the Ara,b states. While no decision was taken, a spokesman said that the possibility has not been ruled out. (Continued on face Six) INDIANA WEATHER Snow warning north and central, and snow and freezing rain extreme south. Snow will spread over the state thia afternoon, continuing tonight becoming mixed with freezing rain or sleet extreme south. Snow accumulations north and central portions 2 to 5 inches by Thursday morning. Thursday cloudy, occasional snow, little change In temperature. Low tonight 22-28 north, 28-34 south... High Thursday 28-35.

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