Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 63, Decatur, Adams County, 15 March 1956 — Page 1

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Plan Vigorous Election Swing For Eisenhower Report Ike's Aides Plan Formidable Election Campaign WASHINGTON (INS) — President Eisenhower — reports to the contrary — has no Intention of sticking to a fireside television campaign this fall. Tne_secrecy lid is still on, but deep within the White House family, Ike’s aides are already beginning to map a formidable electioneering swing that will take the second - term contender to practically every marginal state of the union. One of the prime purposes will be an attempt to recapture the “house of representatives — Democratic since 1954 —for the Grand Old Party via the popular Eisen-' hower coat-tails. Even the White House intimates concede that the senate currently looks like a sure bet for the Democrats this fall. Ike, .however, has no Intention of letting it go by de fault. j Planes will drop the prexy at key cities in such widely scatters' areas as California, Oregon. Ohio Connecticut, Maryland and Penn sylvania. Indiana may also find it self on the busy schedule. In each of these states except Oregon, a Republican senator faces a stiff re-election battle. But Ore gon is the prise goal for the GOP if the elephant party had itr “druthers,” it would rather defea< Sen. Wayne Morse than any Demo cratic incumbent now up for re election. Morse, the loquacious one-time law professor who cteame to the senate as an Oregon Republican switched parties in ant campaigned for the election of Ad lai Stevenson in 1952. The elephant notoriously has a long memory. In fact, so determined is the ad ministration to recapture Oregon that Interior secretary Dougla.* M6Kay was reluctantly persuade, to throw his hat into the ring against Morse. McKay, a former governor, is a high-powered campaigner who has yet (o lose an election. Unfortunately, however, the wealthy Oregon car dealer liked tc be exactly “where he is • — one of 1C in the cabinet, rather than one of 96 in the senate. A bit plaintively McKay argued that even if he were elected to the upper chamber, he would reach the age of 70 before the end of his first term. Republican pressure finally persuaded the secretary to go to Wai ter Reed army hospital three weeks ago for a complete physlca’ check-up. So favorable was the report that McKay ran out of excuses. . As soon as he retires from his cabinet post, he will begin campaigning in earnest. The, a McKayMorse race is expected to be one of the hottest tn the country, and Ike’, promised personal appearance dnr,Z*a*A I M 11 A AC Pao»d RMvdO ’

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Menial Hospital Is Damaged By Flames 780 Patients Are Rescued From Fire FULTON? Mo, (INS) —Flames raged through the sprawling main building Os the state hospital tor the insane at Fulton early today but none of the 780 patients was injured? . , The spectacular blase began at 11:30 o'clock Wednesday night on 1 the top floor of the four-story ad- ' ministration buildiry and spread 1 quickly from the center part to the north and south wings. Some 120 male patients and 160 woman Inmates housed in wards adjacent to the administration offices were the first to be evacuated. When flames spread to the roofs of the north and south wings. 500 other patients also were led to ' .safety. ± The inmates, many of them aged, were taken to four other buildings nearby in which the remainder of the 2,400 patients were housed. Mrs. Ronda Farris, a staff member who was in an apartment in the central section, suffered a slight burn on her foot. She was the only casualty. The center of the three block long, U-shaped building was gutted by flaipes, but the fire on the wings was confined to the roof. Construction Co. Tool Shack Looted Tools, Plans For Building Stolen Construction of a stockyard building near Geneva being done by McClain's Construction company hit a snag this morning when workmen arrived to find most of the Small tools missing. Burglars broke into the small tool shack and removed the tools, including a power saw and a tool box filled with smaller tools. The tool box also contained the* plans for the building and unless it is returned it will be necessary to delay construction until the plans can be redrawn. The contents of small tool box on a bulldozer were also taken. The entry was made by knocking the padlock off the shack. The looting occurred last night, probably sometime near midnight. Dis(Continued on Page Five) Two Indianapolis Men Killed In Accident INDIANAPOLIS (INS) —Two Indianapolis men were killed today When their car failed to stop at a dead end and burrowed into an embankment at a high rate ot speed. a Killed in tfce crash were William H. Lagsdon, 89, and Everett J. Cass, 38. Police said Lagsdon was driving at a high rate‘of speed and tailed t® stop at a T intersection.

Senate Drives To Final Vote On Farm Bill Parity Yardstick On Fair Prices Is First Up To Vote SENATE DRIVES WASHINGTON (INS) —The senate is to put in a 12-hour Working day today in the drive toward a final vote on its battle scarred farm bill. Senate Democratic leader Lyndon Johnson said he is counting on the election year measure being brought to a final vote this week. Some thought there was an outside chance for final action tonight. First up today is a brisk fight over the parity yardstick for measuring fair farm prices in terms of buying power. The formula is of major importance to farmers because government supports of farm prices are based on it. Senate agriculture chairman Allen J. Ellender (D-La.) predicted the administration will take a licking on the transitional parity formula which went into effect this year and which it wants to retain. It would mean a cut in price supports for some crops. Wheat would take the biggest slash. ' The bill provides for use Os either the old or a modernised formula for setting parity — whichever is higher. Sen. George D. Aiken (R-Vt.) has an amendment pending to kill this section. However, there were indications the administration may settle for a compromise, probably one sponsored by Sen. Andrew F. Schoeppel (Ijt-Kan.) Backstage searching for a • compromise is underi stood to be the reason the parity tight did not break out Wednesday. - ’ Schoeppel's amendment would I .restore, tor this year the old parity formula for wheat. - It would, : mean that a 19 eent eut in supt port prices for wheat in 1956 . would be eliminated. Wheat I would be supported at 31.91 a . bushel instead of 31.81. Sen. Milton R. Young (R-N.D.) , conceded that the compromise would have “attraction in an? election year.” ?■ , Work on the farm bill continues amid, bitterness resultitag from a row touched off Wednesday by Aiken’s charge that Democrats (Continued on. Page Five) VofeContribution To Girl Seoul Fund Civic Department Aids Building Fund Hopes for construction this year at Hanna-Nuttman park of a Girl Scout shelter house were given a boost today with the announcement that the civic department of the Woman’s club had voted a 3500 contribution to the building fund. Adult workers of the Girl Scout movement have been planning the project for some time. The shelter house, similar to the one owned by the Boy Scouts, would be head quarters for the outdoor summer projects of the various troops. Leaders pointed out that the shelter house would fn no way take the place of the Girl Scout rooms in the Youth and Community Center. The Hanna-Nuttman park addition would be used strictly for (he summer program and day camp project. ■ \ rt -. ri> . t- v All of the Girl Scout troops have established building funds and this money will be used for the HannaNuttmgn project. Two years ago. the foundation, a concrete slab, was laid and the project was stopped at this point, because it was necessary to take some of the funds for completion of the> rooms at the Center. The Girl Scout organization is a member of the Community Fund campaign and no solicitation for ad ditional funds for the summer project will be, made. Gifts, however, like the one made by the civic section, are deeply appreciated, adult leaders said today. This year all troops are contributing two-thirds of the profit from the annual cookie sale to the building fund and indications are that this will yield a record amount of funds. While no solicitation will be made, adult leaders pointed out that any volunteer gifts would be appreciated and permission has been granted by the Community Fund directors for the young ladfes to accept these gifts.

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Ex-President Hoover Says Sweeping Reform Needed In Government

Lloyd Hopeful Os Averting War In Middle East Says Arab-Israeli War Not Inevitable After Conferences LONDON (INS) — Foreign secretary Selwyn Lloyd, returning to London from visits to the capitals of the tense Middle East, said today he does not believe an ArabIsraeli war is inevitable. Lloyd, wno visited Iraq, Egypt and Israel on his way home from the Karachi conference of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization. told newsmen at London airport: “I think we have to take pertain actions to try to preserve ArabIsraeli peace. These actions must be discussed with my colleagues before I Will talk publicly,” Lloyd refused comment on the furore created in Britain by the U.S. expression of “sympathetic concern” toward Greece over hte Cyprus question. This probably would be one of the matters dis- [ cussed by Lloyd, Prime Minister . Sit Anthony Eden and other caWI, net members when the foreign . retary reported on' his conferences • with Arab and Israeli officials. Wednesday night, Eden won par- ' liamentary approval of his Cyprus policy. A few hours later, troops on the Mediterranean island began , pressing the campaign to end vlo- ’ lence. A full battalion of the famed , “Red Devil” paratroopers began a house-to-house search in the capi- ' tai city of Nicosia for arms and explosives belonging to the Greek Cypriots who seek an end to Britain's rule. The island’s population answered* both the votes in commons and the paratroopers’, search by enlarging the general strike which has paralyzed Cyprus since last week’s exile of the nationalist leader, A rehbjshop Makarios. —- Prime nrtnister Sir Anthony Eden won 65- and 66-vote majorities Wednesday night on the two key votes which ended the long debate. He won them by defending the government actions against all Laborite charges on the simple grounds that maintenance of Britain's position on the Eastern Mediterranean island is absolutely vital to the nation's survival. Eden also.made it clear, though by indirection, that the U. S. has a stake in Britain holding onto Cyprus as its only major military base in the area. Declaring “our duty is to safeguard the strategic needs of our country and our allies,” the prime minister ; said Britain could not carry out her obligations under the Baghdad pact or maintain peace in the Middle East without a free hand on Cyprus. Sir Anthony touched on the core of the Middle East problem as Britain sees It .by admitting: The welfare and indeed the (Continued on Page Five)

Lenten Meditation (By Rev. Robert W. Content, St. Mary’s Catholic Church) 7 THE DIGNITY OF MAN ‘‘God created man to His own image: to the image of God He created him.”—Genesis 1, 27. On every side today we are told of the doings of great men and the actions of great nations. This may lead us to look upon ourselves as insignificant and practically non-existing. However, this is not so. Since God has given each of us an Immortal soul we have certain rights which justly cannot be taken from us by anyone even a totalitarian government—the Declaration of Independence calls them “inalienable rights.- In this sense each one of us '• is equal to anyone of the greatest men who ever lived. Realization of our own dignity as men must lead us to respect others as well. Considering this it seems impossible that a man could act unjustly toward another or permit, prejudices to dictate his attitude and relations with others—certainly he would recognize these actions and attitudes as evil and wrong. It would do each one of us some good to give thought to his own dignity as a human person and the dignity of every other human being in the sight of God. -i .. ...

Decalur Methodists ? Plan For Building Congregation Adopts i Long-Range Program At an official congregational dinner meeting held at the Decatur Youth hnd Community Center on Wednesday night, the members of the First Methodist church adopted a current expense budget of 322,268 for the coming fiscal . year. At the same time a minimum t building fund budget of $>5,000 for j three years was accepted. The . church school operates under a , separate budget not presented at this time. . y?' ■’■ ■ The building plans as accepted [ by the congregation call for the ( construction of a new sanctuary . to connect to the newly completed . chapel unit at the church. It Is anticipated that if the congregation underwrites the goal as pro- ‘ posed that construction of the new sanctuary can be started in ’ 1961. Upon_cgaiplettOTLqt.tlie new church parsonage in April, the lot , on Monroe street now occupied by ' the residence for the pastor will , be vacated to make room for ' building expansion. r The toastmaster for the dinner . meeting was JZ Ward Calland. Aftf er opening remarks, he introduced ■. John Flickinger, vice-chairman of J the- steering committee, who pre- | .seated the proposed building badget and plans. He was followed by . Mrs. Sylvester Everhart, financial 8 secretary, who formulated the new g current expense budget in detail. ! C. I. Finlayson, chairman of the resources study committee, related the work of his associates and ] described how they had arrived at ! reasonable goals and how they had . selected the leadership for the j canvass. Robert G. Smith, chairt man of publicity, told how his . committee was proceeding to inform the congregation of the pro- • posed plans. He Introduced his [ lieutenants: Mrs. Paul Edwards, . Mrs, Alva Lawson. Mrs. William ) Brown, Frank C. Rowley, Mrs. , John Reed. Mrs. Robert G. Smith. and Miss Kathryn Kauffman. Following a musical interlude. ■ Lowell Smith, general chairman i of the steering committee, pre- • sented an analysis of the giving to both current and building budgets of the church. He demonstrated by percentage giving that both budgets were well within the-ftn-ancial potentials of the membership. Rev. Virgil Wesley Sexton, pastor of the church, closed the formal presentations speaking on the subject, “We can if we will.” After discussion and spontaneous expressions from the floor, Calland called for a vote on the plans as presented. They were adopted unanimously. During the dinner hour, informal singing was led by Leland Neuen, choir director of the church, A baritone horn solo, “Beautiful Colorado.” was played by Thomas Lehman of Berne. Miss Phyllis Sprunger of Berne sang “Were You There.’’ The accompanist was Mrs. Sherman Stucky, also of Berne. The invocation was said by Noah Schrock, lay leader, and the (Continued On Page Five)

House Group Approves Fund On Satellites Okay sl9 Million Fund For Program To Build Satellites WASHINGTON (INS) — The house appropriations committee approved $19,262,000 today for the government's program to send ; earth-circling satellites into the I sky. • The money was part of a catch--1 all money bill giving more than a I dozen government agencies $795,- | 743,000 for the current fiscal year. I The committee’ figure is slightly [ more than S4O million less than the ! administration request. : The national science foundation I got the satellite money as part ofl la $26 million appropriation to pay I ; this country's share in the expenses] iof the International Geophysical' ■ Year which runs from July 1, 1957 ! | ,tp Dec. 31, 1958. The administration nad asked for ’ S2B million. Some sl2 million al- , ready had been appropriated. The satellite-launching program, being conducted by both the science foundation and the defense ” department, calls for sending a dozer. of the small spheres skyward in I hopes that at least eight will be established outside the earth’s at- • mosphere. ’ The satellites themselves would weigh only about 20 pounds and ' I would be from 20 to 30 inches in ' i diameter. The jhree-stage rockets i used to get them out of the earth's ! ' atmosphere, however, would weigh ’ i an estimated 11 tons. I I The defense department plans [to pay Tor the developmental cost I of the program and the first six rockets. The national science foun 1 datitin would pay for the instruments and the rest of the rockets. The Pentagon already has signed a contract for more than $2 million with the'Glenn L, Martin Co. of Baltimore to build the rockets. William F. McKean Is Taken By Death Funeral Services Saturday Afternoon William F. McKean, 81, lifelong j resident of the Monroe communI ity, died at 10 a. tn. Wednesday at [ the home of a son, Millard McKean, at New Albany, where he had resided for the past nine months. He was born in Adams county a-ao* of John and Lydia-McKean. His wife, the former Cora Haggard, preceded him in death April 9, 1948. Mr, McKean, a retired- farmer, , was a member of the Monroe Friends church. Surviving are three sons, Millard of New Albany, Clarence McKean of Avilla and Alton J. McKean- of Affton, Mo.; one daughter, Mrs. Alton Seifert of Indianapolis; 11 grandchildren; 10 greatgrandchildren; and one brother. Homer McKean of Butler. Five brothers preceded him in death. •Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p. m. Saturday at the Zwick funeral home, with burial in the Rayi cemetery near Monroe. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o’clock this evening until time of the services. \ _________ INDIANA WEATHER Mostly cloudy tonight, with a mixture of rain, sleet or snow spreading over most of south portion. Friday cloudy with snow north and rain or snow south. Little change in temperature. Low tonight ranging from the 20s north to the 30s south. High Friday 32-36 north, SMO south.

Hope Is Brightening On W. E. Settlement Mediators Meeting With Negotiators WASHINGTON (INS) — Hope brightened toddy for a settlement of the Westinghouse Corp, strike by—this weekend as federal medi-1 ators conferred with company and union officials on a new five-year work contract. ( A tbrge-man panel of mediators talked with officials of Westinghouse and the AFL-CIO International Union of Electrical workers, representing most of the 48,000 strikers involved in the 151-day walkout. Company and union negotiators -reportedly have agreed upon a considerable amount of new contract language during cnofereuces which started in Washington last Tuesday, and while a number of knotty problems remain there is hope that i the mediators can bring the parties I together. P The mediators participating in' i the discussions are John R. Mur- ! ray, David L, Cole and Dr. George | W. Taylor. They comprise a panel which, on March 3, recommended a plan for settling the strike. T.h« company and union groups are trying to write a contract within the framework of the settlement plan presented by the mediators. However, they are said to lurti stumled on a dozen or so points of disagreement, and a meeting with the mediators Is necessary to get the differences ironed out. The mediators recommended a contract and a number* of other things, including a three i per cent wage increase a year for i the five years. Legion To Observe 371 h Anniversary Adams Post To Mark Anniversary Here The thirty-seventh anniversary of the forming of the American Legion Is being celebrated throughout the world in its more than 17,200 posts. The American Legion came into being at a caucus held in Paris, France March iS, 1919, with over 1000 delegates from the first AEF. Following this meeting a caucus was held at St. Louis. Mo., May 8 to 10, 1919, where the organization was completed. The first national convention was held at Minneapolis. Minn. Nov. 10 to 12, 1919. It was at this convention that the Hoosier delegation landed the location of national headquarters for Indianapolis. It has been there ever since. Today the American Legion is rated as the No. 1 public enemy by the Communist party in the United States and is the foremost champion of adequate national security. reha Mi iation and child welfare. Its membership from the President of the United States on down, reads like a volumn of “Who’s Who in America.” Its service to God and country has become a long standing habit. Adams Post No. 43 will celebrate , this anniversary Wednesday, , March 21, commencing with a din- ‘ ner to be served at 6:30 p.m. fol- ] lowed by entertainment. Bulletins, together with reservation cards, have been mailed to all its mem- 1 bers. The reservation cards must be returned not later than March 17 ' in order that proper arrangements J can be made. No reservations mail- ( ed after this date can be accepted. Invitations have been extended to 1 the ladies auxiliary and the Span-ish-American War Veterans. ( - I BULLETIN CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (INS)— A bandit firmed with a hand i grenade threatened to blow up the Porter Square branch of the Harvard Trust Co. today and escaped with two paper bags filled with cash.

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_______ Says Reforms Would Bring Huge Savings Avoids Any Direct Criticism Against i Ike Administration WASHINGTON (INS) — Former President Herbert Hoover declared today that sweeping housekeeping reforms'are needed in government operations and that "billions of dollars of taxes” could be saved If they were put Into effect. The 81-year-old former Chief Executive told a national action, conference on the Hoover reports, sponsored by the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, that necessary budgeting and accounting reforms "are wholly incomplete.” Hoover avoided any direct criticism of the Eisenhower administration. But he clearly undertook to put bis finger on several basic changes in government management which he insisted should get underway. He said he had been told thatbudgeting and accounting reforms recommended by his commission on government reorganization last year are approved by the oonip- ■ tnr“MaifiUMost of ffiA ' tive leaders in the government.” He added: "The question now is adequate legislation.” Hoover recalled that the commission task force had expressed belief that improved financial management of the government would result in annual havings of $4 billion. The commission had estimated that $5 billion a year could be saved by aL-lits recommendations. The former President said 2.000 more poltey- making Jobe should be created in the executive branch and filled by presidential apopintment. ' Thus they would be subject to replacement by any change in administration. He emphasized that he wag not advocating “a spoils system.” There are not enough policymaking jobs in the government now, he said, to carry out-the mandate of the people at the polls. Hoover recalled that his commission had advocated a senior civil service composed of persons chosen for "character and talent alone.” with salaries ranging from $15,000 to $22,000 a year. He said: “If our top military officers had been chosen on the civil service basis of promotion, the deadwood at the top would have lost us two world wars.” He said, “If we want executive talent and character to stay in government, we must do better than we are doing now." _ Widespread Waste " WASHINGTON (INS) — An official of the 1955 Hoover commission charged today that widespread waste and mismanagement exists in defense department buying and that persons in the lower echelons are resisting reforms. Joseph P. Binns, executive vice president of this 'Waldorf - Astoria hotel, New York, presented a picture of chaoos and blunders in defense procurement practices in an address before a national action conference on the Hoover reports. Hinns heads the Hoover commission task foorce on subsistence services. He said that, while changes ordered by top defense officials are in the right direction, "we Jknow from reading the newspapers that the people who have to make the plan -work are not In agreement.” The defense department also came in for criticism from J. Harold Stewart, senior partner in Stewart, Watts and Bollong. New York accountants and auditors. Stewart, who headed the Hoover commission task force on budgeting and accounting, said more effective action is required to . bring these activities in the defense de partment “up to > satisfactory state.”