Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 67, Decatur, Adams County, 20 March 1956 — Page 1

Vol. LIV. No. 67.

MARCH SNOWS ROAR THROUGH EAST B~- BW" KI RwKlti l F iwWMWB J I _ <. T I Jsfft > WIRKMIII wF ” a. w JF *• x ; >■ ‘ I f Z * **r •’fcß, *bf* *'£*'&'■•■' ' ’’ 4 rTy .<V<> * -.-, I g-■ ; ‘. . r - FT . «-?\. : -.t>U''';s> > ■..-■■■- , .^a- < ;< «'< .” :;i.-. : . .- ..<? . ;.-<'*>■ •/*’S A“ *'s V GIRL CLIMBS DRIFT to view row of private and public vehicles as they lay clogged and motionless in Beacon Hill area near Boston, Mass., after furious March blizzard roared across New England. Late winter blast took many lives, staggered transportation and smashed several ocean-going vessels ashore.

New England Digging Out From Blizzard Bright Spring Sun Aids; 24 New Storm Deaths Are Reported BOSTON (INS) —Southern New England communities slowly dug out today under a bright spring sun and transportation began a return to normal after the staggering one-two wintry punch. Two blizzards in four days gave Boston 21.2 inches of snow, but other communities in southern and centeral sections of Massachusetts were buried and crippled under 36.6 Inches of drifting snpw. Cities, and towns coua*ei«24 ne* storm deltlM to bring the two-' storm total to 74 in Massachusetts. Rhode Island and Connecticut. Interurban bus lines made the fastest recovery, and the three New England railroads promised near normal commuter service by late this afternoon. The coast guard reported ,11 — fishermen were rescued by the Norwegian freighter, S. S. Elin Hope, after they abandoned the New Bedford scallop dragger William H. Kiliigrew of New Bedford, 140 miles southeast of Cape Cod. ’ The fishing vessel, battered by winds and seas, sprang a leak in ___4 Before battering these states and parts of the other three New England states the paralyzing twq-fist-ed attack hit eight other states from West Virginia northward, leaving an estimated death toll of 129 from Friday to today. New England’s worst blizzard In forty years spent itself over the Atlantic soon after midnight after the Monday “sneak” attack, depositing 19.5 inches of snow. Damage to property and business mounted into millions of dollars. As the 10:21 a. m. hour of spring approached with the weather cold . , but fair, transportation lines struggled to get back into running for millions of commuters. Airlines were faced with another day of • idleness. Long distance bus Hnes were partially or completely paralyzed. Major highways, buried under 12foot drifts, piled up by 63-mph gales had been plowed out by an army of all-night workers, but hundreds of secondary roads remained impassable. . Thousands emerged from city hotels, public buildings, bus and railroad stations where the second great 1956 "blizzard prisoners” had sought refuge during the night. They had been supplied cots and blankets and food by relief agencies. Many Industrie? remained at a standstill today. Schools and col- . leges were closed. Hundreds of stores did not open. State capitols were opening at noon. Theatres were closed. States of emergency were declar- . ed in seven Massachusetts communities and one in Connecticut. Deserted by all who found shelter many communities resembled "ghost towns” in the swirling snow. Mayor John B. Hynes asked that automobiles be kept out of Boston. The New Haven and Boston and Maine railroads promised commuter service during the forenoon. Their through line trains had been running. The Boston and Albany continued Its local service from Boston to Albany, N. Y., with few (Continued on Paa* Five)

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Jefferson Twp. High School To Be Closed To Transfer Pupils, Retain Grade School Jefferson high school is being closed and high school students of that township will be transferred to other schools starting next September, according to an announcement by Hugh David Mosser. Jefferson township trustee. (Extremely low enrollment has made it impossible for the township to maintain an adequate high school. However, it was announced that the Jefferson grade school would be retained in its present quarters. The legal papers authorizing the transfer of the high school students have been prepared and these students will be transferred to other school corporations suitably located geographically. It is - assumed that most of the students will enroll at either the BerneFrench or Geneva high schools. The official action by trustee Mosser follows the recent referendum vote by the township in which residents rejected a proposal to consolidate with the Geneva school corporation. Max Stanley, principal and eoach for Jefferson school, stated that he has made no plans for the next school year and would not say whether or not he will be at Jefferson next year. Tocsin Telephone Co. Asks Rate Increase Indianapolis hnsi — The Tocsin Telephone company today filed a petition with the public service commission asking for a rate increase and discontinuance of free service to four neighboring towns. _ ■ ' ~“ The petition did not ask for any specific amount, but sought a PSC investigation and hearing to determine “just rates” for the utility. The company said also that it wished the PSC to ascertain whether the present free service to Ossian. Preble, Poe and Craigville should be continued. Requests Red Cross Drive Be Completed Chairman Requests Solicitors Report Carl Braun, general chairman of the 1956 county Red Cross fund drive, issued a request today that all solicitors make an effort to have their reports into the Red Cross office before Holy Week. The fund drive does not officially close until March 31 but because of Holy Week activities’in Adams county, an attempt is being made to wind up the. campaign a few days early. “ Chairman Braun expressed appreciation to all of the .volunteer solicitors who are working to make the current drive siccessful. He stated that from early indications it is believed that the county will be able to meet its SII,OOO goal. However, he pointed out that many of the reports are still not in and that special effort on the part of those who' have not reported yet would be appreciated by the campaign and division chairman. INDIANA WEATHER Fair and warmer tonight and Wednesday. Low tonight 26-30 north, 30-36 south. High Wednesday 65-62. »

Hope Brightens For Settlement Os IE Strike Report Union Heads Gaining Ground To Approve Settlement WASHINGTON (INS) — Hope brightened for a settlement later today of the 156-day Westinghouse Electric Corp, strike. Leaders of the badly split AFLCIO International Union of Electrical workers were reported gain ing ground in efforts to secure approval of a settlement plan by the union's 14-man negotiating committee. —• — The committee resumed its debate at 16 mm. (EST) at the u.g» ion’s Washington headquarters. It has fought over terms of a proposed new five-year work contract until 2:15 a.m. (EST). The contract would date for five years from last Oct. 15, and would provide for a three per cent annual pay raise for 44.000 Il’E-members. The minimum pay boost over the five years would be 25 cents an hour. The union’s 75-man Westinghouse conference board stood by while the committee argued. It is scheduled to meet at 2 p m. (EST) to vote on the contract if the committee concludes its discussion by that time. In the committee. IUE president James B. Carey was reported to be making an all-out tight to secure approval of the settlement plan, which federal mediators helped him to negotiate with company officials. The largest stumbling block to approval of the contract by the union committee reportedly was the proposed handling of 36 cases of workers discharged by the company for strike violence. It was reported that the agreement calls for screening of charges at the local level, with cases of employes not reinstated in their jobs to be settled by arbitration. Opposition to this plan was said to have been voiced, however, by leaders of the large local unions who want reinstatement of all 36 workers before the strike is ended. . Arrangements had been made to have the new contract signed as soon as the conference board approved it. Thie was to have been done at the Washington headquar ters of federal mediation service. The company had been ready to start calling strikers back to work —beginning with maintenance men early Tuesday. , Carey was reported to be insisting on favorable action on the proposed contract by the negotiating committee. He also is said to have the support of other top IUE officers who assisted In the- negotiations. •’ - - ■I . _ First Day Os Spring Is Fair And Warmer INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — April showers and near spring temperatures were forecast for the next five days in Indiana as frost-bitten Hoosiers the vernal thaws. The forecast for this first day of spring called for fair and warmer conditions today and tonight with highs ranging from 44 to 60 degree*. The five-day forecast call* for near normal temperatures of 53 to 62 high and 32 to 39 low.

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Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, March 20, 1956.

Predicts Eisenhower Wilf Veto Farm Bill As Passed By Senate

Minnesota Is Test Between Top Candidates First Direct Test By Sen. Kefauver, Ad lai E. Stevenson MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (INS) Minnesota voters went to the polls today in bright but mild winter weather to provide the answer in the first direct presidential primary test between Adlai E. Stevenson and Sen. Estes Kefauver (DTenn.) The voting was light in some areas and heavy in others ddring the early morning hours hut a total turnout of perhaps 500,000 vot-. ers was expected by the time the polls close at 8 p.tn. (CST). Bali loting began at 7 a m. (CST). The forecast of good weather was ' encouraging to Kefauver leaders, who said it would help the senator in the rural counties where his ■ challenge to front - running Stevenson seemed to have its greatest strength. . J.L 1 Kefauver was expected back in i ■ Minnesota from Washington later today but his opponent, the 1942 - Democratic presidential candidate. . will be i> Chicago during the f tiou count. At stake in the election are 57 : Democratic national convention delegates, not to mention the polii tical reputation of DemocraticI Farmer-Labor party leaders whose I endorsement of Stevenson failed to . keep the “underdog" Kefauver out . of the Minnesota race. These ini elude Gov. Orville L. Freeman, Sen. Hubert Humphrey and Lt. Gov. Karl F. Rolvaag. Polls will be open from 7 a.m. 1 to 8 p.m. in the presidential per mary, which is only the second held under the present Minnesota law. In 1952, when President Eisenhower- received .a hig .write-in vote, some 426.000 Democratic and Republican voters turned out in bad weather. Today's election was important because it provided the first direct test of strength between Stevenson and Kefauver. Although Kefauver won the New Hampshire presidential primary last week in a clean sweep of delegates. Stevenson did not personally enter or campaign in that state. Republicans in Minnesota concentrated on getting out as big a vote as possible for President Eisenhower. a sure GOP winner although Sen. Williani F. Knowland (R Calif.), stil lhad a slate of delegates on the ballot. Stevenson returned to Chicago after a final-round of speeches in (Continued on Page Five)

Lenten Meditation (By Rev. H. J. Welty, Decatur Missionary Church) THE WEATHER “That We henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men. and the cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive.”—Ephesians 4:14. Meteorologists make a careful study of the atmospheric conditions, then take into careful consideration all of the variables that may come into the picture, and when they feel that they have ” taken everything'worthwhile into account they proceed to predict " what the weather will be for us the next twenty-four or thirty-six - hours. Even with all of their scientific equipment they occassfonally miss on their predictions. From this we learn that the weather is unpredictable, unsteady, and very changeable. The point of emphasis in this meditation is this, “Children of God should not be like the weather.” There are many so called Christians that hardly know where they stand, for one day they are up and then the next day they are down. To them it has become a toss up between victory and defeat. They do not know which they will have today. This is not as God has designed It. He does not want us to be tossed about like a piece of paper in the wind. But He does want us to be' established and well rooted and grounded in our Christian lives. God had given to us all things that are necessary to lite and godliness. He has given gifts unto the Church so that be these we may be edified, strengthened, and built tin th of’Christ. We must be able to give a reason for the hope that is within us. Are you unsettled in your Christian life? Give yourself over to a careful and nraverfu! study of the Word of God. and May He grant that according to the richsis of His glory, you may he strengthened with might by His Spirit in the inner man.

Annual 4-H Report Approved By Board 4-H Cash Balance Reported Increased The annual 4-H report filed Monday with the county commissioners showed total income f0r1955 iat $19,211.95 and total expenditures at $17,001.83, for an increase in cash of $2,210.12. The report, which was approved by the commissioners, included a detailed account of the $2.500 4-H appropriation, of the income and expenses for the 4-H fair and of the 1955 inventory. Fair income included $1,583 from catalogue advertising, IL--666.09 from the sale of display space, $5,929.98 from the food and rural youth tents, $89.49 in donations and $122.50 stove donation from the home demonstration clubs. Expenses Were $987.86, catalogue; $3,360.30 tent supplies; $103.50. parade prizes; SB7. entertainment festival prizes; $363.30, Insurance; $538.80, services; sl,930.10, rentals; $202,29, miscellaneous; $139.04, new equipment; sl,560, 4-H ground final payment and interest on loan, and $7,696.64, 4-H I ground account expenses. The total profit from the fair itself was $1;572.92. The 1955 inventory shows $7,829.68. Inventory carried over from previous years was $801.70. The 4-H gtound acquired in 1954 was $4,091 and the cash carried from 1954 was sl,368.12. The net worth of the organization as of Dec. 31, 1955, is $16,300.62. British Forces Use Tear Gas On Crowd Break Up Turkish Mob In Nicosia NICOSIA (IN9) British security forces used tear gas today to disperse a crowd of Turks demonstrating near a Greek church in the Turkish quarter of Nicosia. The British troops also used their truncheons to break up the mob which was shouting antiGreek slogans around the Church of St. Luke. Two Turks were injured slightly. Firemen also thwarted an attempt to set the church afire when they discovered a lighted bottle of gasoline near the church door. A Greek Cypriot photographer was badly beaten up by the Turks as he tried to take pictures of attacks on Greek shops. He was hospitalized. Police also broke up a demon(Continued On Rage Five)

Dulles' Aide Urges Passage Os Foreign Aid Hoover Says Russia a Seeking To Isolate j Free World Lands ‘ WASHINGTON (INS) 1 secretary of atate Herbert Hoov--1 er Jr., charged today that the Sos viet Union is attempting to isolate free world countries from the ! United States. * Hoover testified before the r house foreign affairs committee 1 on the administration’s plea.for a ' $4.6 billion foreign aid authorizk--1 tion for the 1957 fiscal year be--1 ginning July 1. He asserted that isolating the free world' countries is "the im-' mediate Soviet goal" and once this was accomplished, “the goal ' of outright conquest or subver- ’ sion would be greatly advanced.” Another state department offiI cial, international cooperation ad- , ministrator John B. Hollister, warned that “although their (Russia's) primary effort appears to ' be economic, there is no indica- ’ tion that the war preparations ' have ceased.” 1 TJte PreMdent asked congress ’ Monday to authorize four billion, J 672 million in new funds for the foreign aid program for the 1957 fiscal year which begins July 1. The committee will consider this request. Once congress approves a foreign aid authorization, It must then vote the actual funds. The President requested that four billions, 860 million dollars be appropriated for the new fiscal year. Part of tihs sum was authorized in previous years and the r.ew arprourfation, if approved in full, would still leave an unappropriated authorization balance of - 24 million dollars. ZZZZZ r The President also requested - authorization for the government i “to make commitments up to ten years ... to assist less developed 1 countries in -long term projects > important to their development.” Mr. Eisenhower said annual exi penditures for this purpose would • not exceed 100 million dollars. b ITI LlFl N ( WASHINGTON (INS)—The state department announced , today that secretary of state John Foster Dulles will report to the nation Friday on hl* trip to Asia. The department said Dulles will speak for 30 minutes at 10:30 p.m. (EST) and his talk will be carried over radio and television. Mrs. Mae Andrews Is Taken By Death Funeral Services Thursday Afternoon Mrs. Mae Elzey Andrews, 66, a resident of Decatur most of her life, died at 12 noon Monday at a Richmond hospital. DOath was attributed to a cerebral embolism. She was born in Decatur Doc. 31. 1890. a daughter of Alfred and Cecelia BatLEizey. She resided -hi Decatur until 1938, when she moved to Fort Wayne. Surviving are three sons, IRussell, Lawrence and Richard Andrews, all of Decatur; two daughters. Mrs. Fred Kraus of Detroit. Mich., and Mrs. Lloyd Youse of Hoagland; 10 grandchildren; three greaf-grandchildren, and one brother. Lorence Elzey of Covington, Ky. One brother and one sister preceded her in death. —- Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p.m. Thursday at the Zwlck funeral home, the Rev. Paul Schmeidel officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o'clock this! evening until time of the services.

Reds Pound Island Held By Nationalists Arouses New Fears Os Landing Assault TAIPEI (Wednesday) — (INS)— Communist naval vessels and short batteries rocked Nationalist - held Tateng in the strategic Matsu islands with an hour long rain of shells Tuesday night, arousing fears of a possible new red landing ? assault. Under cover of artillery fire K from Huangohi near the red main- ’ land port of Foochow, five Com--5 munist LST landing ships hurled 114 shells onto tiny Tateng, a Na- ’ tlonalist cammunlque said. ’ Nationalist big guns on the isle 1 roared back in retaliation against the red bombardment which suddenly began striking Tateng at 9 p.m. and continued until 10 p.m., ' jvhen the Communists broke off the ■ engagement. * It was the first time that Communist naval fire had ever been ’ directed in force against any island of the Matsu group. The communique, Issued by Free China's Matsu garrison, did not ’ mention the number of shells lob- , bed onto Tateng by the red shore . batteries on the nearby mainland. , The bombardment came a day after the Matsus, 150 miles norths west of the principal Nationalist island of Formosa, wert placed!' j under air alert Monday when four ? Russian-made MIG jet war planes were sighted overhead. No bombs s were dropped, however. Nationalist military commanders .. recently predicted a possibly imt minent Communist invasion assault on the Matsus, which comprise the t northern anchor of Formpsa’s outs post island defenses off the conj tinental coast. i- _ e “ Bromfield Funeral * Thursday Afternoon i MANSFIELD, O. (INS) — Fut neral services for Louis Bromfield, j author, lecturer and agriculturall Ist, will be held Thursday at Mans- » field. ’ Services will be at 3 p.m. in . the First Congregational church. I The body will be cremated and the ashes buried later at a private service. Holy Week Services Planned At Monroe Special Services Open Sunday Night Churches pf Monroe and community will hold union Holy Week services beginning next Sunday and continuing through March 29. with services at 7:30 o’clock each evening. This will be followed by a union Good Friday service from 2 to 3 . p.m. at the Monroe Methodist church, with the Rev. John D. Mishler, pastor of the Pleasant Dale Church of the Brethren as the guest speaker. The schedule fqr the Holy Week ■ services follows: Sunday, March 25 — Monroe Friends church, the (Rev. Susie Sproull preaching. Monday March 26 Pleasant Valley Wesleyan Methodist church the Rev. Louis, Klotzbach preaching. Tuesday, March 27 Monroe Methodist church, the Rev. Vernon Riley preaching. Wednesday, March 28 — Wini Chester United Brethren church, the Rev. Garl R. Shaw preaching. , Thursday, March 29 — St. Paul Missionary church, the Rev. Ralph *R. Johnson preaching. —— The host pastor will preside at the service in his own church and the host church will also be responsible for special music. , Because of illness, the Rev. C. J. Profitt, of the Winchester Unit- , ed Brethren church, will be. unable, to preach.

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Senate Jolts Ike Program In Final Vote Senator Knowland Predicts Ike Veto Unless Bill Changed WASHINGTON (INS) — Senate GOP leader William F. Knowland predicted today that President Eisenhower will veto the farm bill if it gets to him in the form passed by the senate. The California senator made the forecast after Republican legislative leaders met with Mr. Eisenhower at the White House. Knowland emphasized he was not speaking for the President him- ' self but added: ——•‘l don’t frankly see how if the bill is left in its present form, the President could sign it. “j would personally think the secretary of agriculture would find it a most difficult bill to administer in its present form and I assume he would make such a recommendation to the President” Knowland and other GOP leaders, were hopeful, however, that the objectionable features of the bill passed Monday night will be removed tn a senate-hppse confdrenim rrrtnmfttee. The senator told newsmen: ‘‘The hope of everyone, including the President, is that the conference will modify the bill which we believe is unworkable in many respects.” . , Knowland and house Republican leader Joseph W. Martin Jr., of Mass., also expressed hope for speedy action by the conferees. Martin said a lot depends on chairman Harold F. Cooley (DN. C.) of the house agriculture committee, - Cooley must give the word on appointment of house’ conferees, which will determine how quickly the conference committee gets into action. Mr. Eisenhower apparently did not say directly at the weekly legislative meeting whether he would veto the bill as it passed the senate. Knowland pointed out that the President never says how he will act on a bill before it reaches his desk. Agriculture secretary Ezra Taft Benson sat in on the 90-minute conference, which dealt almost entirely with the farm bill. The election-year measure, debated in the senate since Feb. 22, finally passed Monday night by a 93 to 2 vote. Sens. Prescott Bush (R-Conn.) and Ralph Flanders (RVt.) voted against it, and only Sen, Irving Ives (R-N.Y.) was absent. Senate Republican leader William F. Knowland, Calif., said he voted for the bill to get it into. . conference because there is “reasonable hope the conferees may be , able to work out a satisfactory measure —one that the President can sign.” Senate Democratic leader Lyndon Johnson, Tex., said at one point he had considered voting against the measure but that it was "improved” before the final vote. Senate agriculture chairman Allen J. Ellender (D-La,) declared that as head of the conferees, he wltt-"do alt f can to get "this bill enacted before the Easter recess,” which starts March 30. Sen. George D. Aiken (R-Vt.) the administration's farm leader in the senate, termed the bill ‘emasculated” and “tortured and battered.” He said as it now stands, it could be vetoed on several grounds. The measure as passed by the senate authorizes some two billion dollars tn federal aid: to * boost low farm income. It sets up a soil bank—under which farmers would receive government payments for taking land out of production—which President Eisenhower asked. Rut the bank would be mandatory for far (Continued on Psge Six)