Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 71, Decatur, Adams County, 24 March 1956 — Page 1

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Dulles Pleads For More Help To Asian Lands Says American Aid Can Turn Back Red Threat For Asians WASHINGTON (INS) — Secretary of state Johq Foster Dulles declarefl Friday night that with American help the people of free Asia can au J will turn Stack the Communist threat to their independence. The secretary made his statement in a radlo-TV report to the nation on his 19-day tour of 10 Asian countries. He said all the Asian leaders he talked with, including such neutrals as premier Jawaharlal Nehru of India, want , the U. S- to remain strong enough militarily to provide them "a protective embrella" against C-~;munist aggression. At *\e same time, he said, the Asian leaders want America to help them develop strong economic and social systems as a buttress for this protecetive ’’shield.” Dulles urged that the U. S. increase its technical assistance to the Aslan countries so they can develop factories, electric power, water projects and mines which will improve the living standards of the people. He urged approval of President Eisenhower’s plan to make longterm commitments for specific long-range projects. Overall, he said, the U. 8. mutual security program ’’provides the margin of difference between a world environment which is friendly and healthy, and one which is corroded by massive discontent, dangerous both to us and to the discontented.” Dulles said the danger of war is most threatening in the Formosa area. But he said that in all countries he visited ’t’here is a profound desire for peace." He noted that both Nationalist China and South Korea “would be wlUtag-to Stake almost- any ascrifice to restore freedom to their countries as a whole.” But he added quickly that “even there the will to sacrifice is tempered by knowledge that modern war creates such widespread devastation apd so many evils that it provides no clear solution to any problem.” He said “the clearest single impression that I received” was that the Asians, including the neutrals, depend upon the armed might of America and her allies to protect them from Communist aggression “Repeatedly," he said, “I was asked whether it was our purpose to maintain that protective cover affording new freedoms, the opportunity to sink deep their roots and grow strong. “Each tlmp my reply was emphatically affirmative. And this re(Continued on Page Five) INDIANA WEATHER Mostly cloudy, windy and much colder with scattered snow flurries today. Fair and colder tonight Sunday fair and continued cold. Low tonight 15-26. High Sunday 42-

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Lt. Richard Haffner Dies In Plane Crash Ossian Navy Officer Is Killed In Crash Lt. Richard Haffner. 25, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Haffner of Ossian. was killed in an airplane crash Thursday in California, according to word received here by relatives. The young man was a lieutenant, junior grade, in the U.S. navy.’ - ■ Mrs. Haffner is the former Ruth Hollingsworth of Decatur. Mr. and Mrs. Haffner pre leaving Sunday morning for California and the body of their son will be returned to Ossian for funeral services. Richard Haffner was born November 25, 1931. He was educated in Adams and Wells county schools and was graduated from Miami college, Oxford, O. Surviving in addition to the parents are the widow, Jane Ann Custer Haffner, formerly of Toledo. O. and a son, Richard, Jr., aged two months. A brother, James Haffner of Cincinnati, 0.. a step-brother. Edwin Kauffman of Decatur, and a step-sister, Mrs. Betty Luts of Fort Wayne, also survive. Details of the plane mishap were not given to the Haffners in the message from the government. It is known that the plane struck a', mountain on a routine flight in' California. Lt. Haffner was a member of the Masonic lodge at Ossian. I - High School Pupils Aid Seal Campaign Members Os Speech Class Help Drive As another big step in the 1956 Easter Seal campaign, the members of the Decatur high school speech class, under the direction of Deane Dorwin, speech instructor and president of the Adams county crippled children’s society, have joined forces to help in this project to help the handicapped. ...Theso stade«ta - prepared and then presented appealing speeches to the three Decatur public schools. Speaking at the Lincoln grade school and the Northwest > school were Shirley Wass, Janet Lane, and Dee Dee Striker. Ralph Thomas, Stan Kirkpatrick and Dan KTueckeberg, each presented short talks at the Decatur high school. Thomas also served as chairman of arranging these talks “which were presented to the individual classrooms. Gail M. Grabill. county superintendent of schools, and treasurer of the crippled children’s society, today announced that a total of 1125.43 had been collected so far in. the county schools. Os this arhount, .$53 was contributed by Decatur high school students. $44'10 by students at the Lincoln grade school, and $20.75 from the Northwest school. The only other school reporting thus tar, is Emmanueal Lutheran, which reported a collection ot $7.58. A small “bunny pin" was given to the grade students for their contributions, and a "lily pin” was given to the high school students. Paul Schmidt, also a member of

Plan Atoms For Peace Agency Under U. N. Virtual Agreement By Twelve Nations To Establish Group UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (INS) —The United Nations was asked today to collect data from member governments and the UN specialized agencies on the amount of radiation mankind has been exposed to in the nuclear age. The request by the 15-nation special scientific committee on radiation represented the first step by the group to evaluate the effects on human life ot nuclear weapons explosions and other sources of radioactivity. The committee, which met priviately at UN headquarters for teh days, completed its preliminary work aimed at lifting global fears that the atomic age may threaten unborn generations with disastrous genetic effects and possible contamination of the atmosphere. Windup of the group's session came as the U. S. announced that virtual agreement has been reached among 12 governments, including (Russia, on establishing a UN atoms-for-peace agency to spread nuclear benefits among mankind. U.S. deputy ambassador James J. Wadsworth told a news conference at UN headquarters that accord has been reached in principle on the basic statute for the agency, originally envisioned by President Eisenhower in an address to *he UN assembly in 1953. ’ „_The 12-nation talks on the . agency have been held under U.S. . auspices in Washington. They are . scheduled to resume April 9. , Wadsworth, U.S. representative t at the negotiations, said only a few major points remain to be cleared up before the draft statute for the , agency-'is submitted for considersI tion by a proposed 84-nation conr ference, expected to meet at UN ( headquarters next fail. I ' Scores Neglect Os l 3 Free Road System Matt Welsh Assails Craig Administration i « SEYMOUR, Ind. (INS) — Matt Welsh, Indiana state senator who is reaching for the Democratic > guberatorial nomination, charged the administration of Governor George N. Craig overlooked “the premier importance of the free road system and has concentrated ' its energies on toll roads.” > spoke Friday night at a meeting of Hiway 50 association at Seymour. Welsh charged: “This lack of attention to the free road system comes at a time when more than a thousand people a year are being killed on our deteriorating highways. While road conditions are not the sole cause of accidents, they are contributing factors . The gubernatorial candidate charged that the Craig administration erred when it blocked a gas tax increase during the 1955 general assembly and opined that “an increase in the gas tax will come out of the next session of the legislature?’ “ Welsh told the Seymour audience that toll roads “are extremely useful in routing heavy traffic over well defined major routes across the state. They can help . from the pounding Os heavy commercial interstate traffic and they, should also be able to handle this traffic more safely than present congested interstate routes.” Lions International Director Here Monday Ralph Deckard, one of the nine directors of Lions International, will be the guest speaker at the weekly dinner meeting of .the Decatur Lions club Monday evening at 6:30 o’clock at the Youth and Community Center. This will also be ladies bight, and all club members and their ladies are Invited to attend. Deckard, the only international director from Indiana, will speak on his trip to South America last fall when he attended the meeting of international directors. Dions clubs of this zone have been invited to the meetings, and Lions and their wives from the Berne, Geneva and Linn Grove clubs will attend. ~NOON EDITION

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, March 24, 1956.

United States Rejects Japanese Request For Halting Atomic Tests

Sen. Kefauver In Primary In South Dakota Tennessee Senator In South Dakota Primary Election LOS ANGELES (INS) — F. Jo- ■ seph Donohue, national campaign . chairman for Sen. Estes Kefauver, announced today that the senator ■ would enter the South Dakota Dem- . ocratic presidential primary to be i held on June 5. Donohue quoted the candidate as saying: 1 “I am happy once more to place ’ my cause before the people of South Dakota. Their problems are ’ similar to those ot Wisconsin and Minnesota, both of whose primaries I entered. ; “The failure of the EisenhowerBenson farm policies, the neglect- ( ful attitude of the administration , toward the problems of the small [ busines man. together with other , issues, will almost certainly cause ' South Dakota to be in the Demo- , cratic column in November.” | j Kefauver said he would campaign in South Dakota “to the extent that a very crowded schedule allows. The campaign there will be managed by George A. (Archie) Bangs of Rapid City. The state will have eight votes at the Democratic national convention. Kefauver, now campaigning in the Los Angeles area, had another busy day of talks, meetings and conferences ahead of him again today. „ . Six Negroes Fail To Gain Entrance I Sought Admission To Georgia School ATLANTA (INS) — Six Negro students have failed in initial es- , forts to register at the Georgia State College of business administration in Atlanta. Two, of the prospective students — Edward J. Clemons. 22. an insurance salesman, and Mrs. Thelma B. Boone, a secretary at Clark college — tried unsuccessfully Friday to present applications. Four other prospective students accompanied them, but did not seek to file applications for admission when Clemons and Mrs. Boone were rebufed. Clemons and Mrs. Boone apepared before Fulton county oordinary Eugene Gunby seeking certification of their residence and good moral character. Gunby told them he had stopped making such certifications until after applications are process- . ed..by the «ho»» . : . (Continued on Fan Mlrht)

Lenten Meditation (By Rev. W. H. Kirkpatrick, Decatnr Church o£ Rod) THE REALIST — ? Scripture: Mark 12:28-3’4 "To love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbor as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.” Mark 12:33. Again and again we are struck with the of Christ, as he thrusts through all the formalism, all all the veneer and gets at the heart of the matter. have the religion of Christ summed up in these two commandments. Tn order for us to understand what Christ means, there must be a fundamental and radical change Jn our thinking, a change of heart, for out of the heart are the very issues of life itself. When the heart is right, then we dan be genuine in our living, we can be realist for then we are naturally living out of the heart what is in the heart. But when hate fills the heart, it is impossible to love God first and best of all, and our neighbor as ourself. We can see that there is a lot of twisted thinking In our world, and there will be until we can look upon man. any man, of-whatever color, or language, as a men for whom Christ died! * ' Prayer: HOI7 Father help us this day to he Christian realists, we want to be changed in our hearts until we can love Thee and love our fellowman wfth al! our hearts and mean it, for Jesus ‘sake. Amen.

Limberlost Area Is Named Rainbow Lake Annual Limberlost Party Held Friday “Rainbow Lake” is the winning jianie for the lake between Geneva and Ceylon. The essay suggesting the name and giving the reasons for calling it this was submitted by Margaret Beeler, a student at the Geneva-Wabash school. Announcement of the winner was made Friday night at the annual Limberlost Land party at Geneva. Miss Beeler was awarded an outboard motor donated by Walter Gilliom and L. A. Mann. Second and third place winners in the essay contest to name the lake were Michale Habegger of Berne-French school and Joanna WJieeler of Geneva SChOOI. f , ~ ~ Another nigblight or the affair was the selectton of Margo Augsburger of Hartford as 1956 “Girl of the Limberlost.” Selected on the basis of talent and appearance. Miss Augsburger competed against four other girls, including Louise Lehman of Jefferson, Evelyn Mann of Geneva, Jone Gregg of Petroleum and Ruth Ann Foltz of Poling. Judges for the contest were Har- » ley Hook, director of th? Indiana department of conservation; Richard T, James, secretary-wipnager of I tbs Hoasjer Motor Clpb awd forme* lieutenant-governor of Indiana; George Sockrider of Auburn, district governor of Lions International. and Bob Sievers, announcer for radio station WOWO. Announcement was made that more than one third of the lots on the new "Rainbow” lake have already been sold. Work is continuing on the lake and park. Robert Helelr of Decatur served as master of ceremonies for Friday night's event. The party is an annual event to celebrate the arrival of spring in the Limberlost and to commemorate the famous writer. Gene Stratton Porter, who made the Limberlost area famous in her books. Last night's program began at 5:30 p.m. with a fish supper prepared and served by the Geneva Lions club members. The program also featured a variety show presented by talent from all over the Limberlost area. Biological Test To Give Cancer Warning PARIS (INS) —Prof. Riccardo Galeazzi - Lisi. Pope Plus Xll's personal physician, said Friday night he and a group of other doctors have developed a biological test to give early warning of cancer. The doctor told a French audience at the Catholic institute in Paris that the same' test “allows attenaution of pain among sufferers from advanced cancer.” He also said that It was possible disease from one organ to another.

Ike And Top Advisers Hold Secret Session Top Aides Confer With Eisenhower At White House Today WASHINGTON (INS) —President Eisenhower holds an unusual secret session today with his top military, diplomatic and intelligence aides to canvass new developments in the cold war. Although the White House declined to say what will be discussed, the list of participants at the 9 a. m. (EST) meeting indicated that the agenda is of more than routine importance. Presidential news secretary James C. Haggerty said the conference ‘‘does not in any way relate” to the Middle East crisis. Describing the subject as "of a classified nature," he said the parley is “one of a series of routine technical briefings on various phases of our American security program.” However, the conferees will in- ’ dude: defense secretary Charles ' JE. Wilson; central intelligence agency director Allen Dulles; under secretary Os state Herbert Hoover, Jr.; Adm. Arthur W. Radford, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff; air force secretary Donald A. Quarles, and Gen. Nathan Twining, air force chief of staff. The meeting was originally scheduled to be held Friday, but it was postponed for 24 hours because same participants were unable to attend. There was speculation that the conference might deal with Mr. Elsenhower's proposal that the V. S. and Russia make a start toward his “open sky” atomic disarmament plan by designating limited areas in each country which could be surveyed by aerial inspection teams. Other speculation centered on recent Soviet achievements in production of long-range missiles, on the U. S. missile program, and —despite Hagerty’s denial — on the Middle East situation. Robert A. Ramsey Is Taken By Death « Adams County Lady's Father Dies Friday Robert Andrew Ramsey, 91, lifelong resident of Canada, died at 12:45 o'clock Friday afternoon at the Berne nursing home, where w ’’wwrwK® ftfliwrafa cerebral death was listed as cardiac failure. Mr. Ramsey, a retired farmer, had been visiting at the home of a daughter, Mrs. John C. Baltzell, Decatur route 6, since Dec. 4. He was born in Point Levy, Quebec, Jan. 31, 1865, a son of Andrew and Mathilda SkillinRamsey. His wife, the former Margaret Froom, preceded him in death in 1949. Mr. Ramsey was a- member of the Presbyterian church and was a 50-year honorary member of the Masonic lodge at Dominion City, Manitoba, Canada. Surviving in addition to Mrs. Paltzell are two other daughters Mrs. Walter Baltiel! of Chicago and Mrs. Mildred Murphy of Vancouver, British Columbia; and five sons, Leslie and Benjamin of Dominion City, Harold of Winnipeg. Dudley of Carberry, and Muriel, of Emerson. ” The body was taken to the Zwick funeral home and has been shipped to the Bert-Witty funeral home at Dominion City, where services will probably be held Monday.

Heavy Snow Sweeps Michigan, New York Canadian Cold Air Mass Shoves South CHICAGO (INS) — Amercians asked themselves today if this is spring -heavy snow which swept across southern lower Michigan and into western New York and a cold air mass from Canada which plunged southward over the northern plains and the midwest. A band of heavy snow brought from three to seven inches of snow to Michigan as it headed east. The wintry blast gave Jackson, Mich., 10 inches of snow and Grand Rapids and Detroit both seven inches. , Early thia morning the snow moved eastward across Lake Erie into New York and Pennsylvania. It ended in tower Michigan. In the past six hours, Erie, Pa., measured four inches and Buffalo, N.Y. three inches. South of the snow band, showers occurred over Illinois, Indiana and eastward into sections of Pennsylvania. Rain also fell in northwestern Oregon and near Seattle. Meawhile, the Canadian cold air swept into the midwest dropping temperatures to near aero in northern Minnesota early this morning. Grand Forks, N.D., had one above The rest of the Country bad warmer temperatures this morning. especially through Tennessee and Kentucky. It was 58 at Los Angeles, 41 at Seattle. 14 at Fargo, N.D., 23 at Buffalo. N.Y., 68 at Miami. 54 at Fort Worth, 47 at Denver, 5 above at International Falls, Minn., and 29 at Chicago. Plan Union Service Here Good Friday Churches Sponsor Service March 30 The Decatur ministerial association and the Associated Churches will sponsor union services on Good Friday and at Easter sunrise. Both services will be in the sanctuary of the First Methodist church at Fifth and Monroe street The Good Friday services will be from noon to 3 p.m. Businesses of the city are being requested to close during this three hour period. During the first and third hours, the speaker will be Dr. JB. Marion Smith, professor of New Testament at Butler University. The Music department of the Woman's Club will present the Lenten cantata, "Penitence, Pardon, and Peace,” for the second hour. Miss Helen Haubold will direct. Ministers of the cooperating churches will participate in the program. _ _. ' l . .-%«-• Easter "Wnriw services w»i be held at 6 o’clock Easter morning. The plans are being made by the youth groups of the cooperating churches. Robert Ochsenrider, student for the ministry at Earlham College and son of Mr. and Mrs. Niland Ochsenrider of this city, has been invited to be the speaker. The public is invited to attend these services. Jarrell Appointed Poetry Consultant WASHINGTON (INS) —Randall Jarrell has been appointed to serve a two-year term as poetry consultant to the Library of Congress. Jarrell, 41, is associate professor of English at the women’s college of the University of North Carolina. He has published five volumes of poetry, a book of criticism and a novel since 1942. His appointment is subject to a security check. The previous nominee, Dr. William Carlos Williams, of Rutherford, N. J., never filled the post. He hadnY received security clearance by the time his term expired.

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Declare Tests Are Vital To U. S. Defense L i . J.. ._- i Says Possession Os Nuclear Weapons Is Deterrent To War WASHINGTON (INS) — The t state department has disclosed f that the U.S. has turned down a I Japanese request to halt further • atomic tests in the Pacific. I At the same time, the departi ment revealed this country has promised to consider the question r of compensating Japan in the evi ent of damage or economic loss as . a result of nuclear tests scheduled i this spring. Disclosure of the action came in making public a note delivered to the Japanese embassy on March ■ 19. The note, signed by undersecretary of state Herbert Hoover Jr., 1 was an answer to two messages earlier this year from Japan asking for compensation and passing along a resolution of the Japanese ’ diet urging suspension of the • tests. • - The note said: “The United ’ States recognizes and strongly sympathizes with the humane mo1 tlvatfffrrs which inspired the reso- ‘ lutions of the Japanese diet.” 1 The under secretary added, however, that he must “point out that the problem of suspending nuclear weapons tests cannot be treated separately from the establishment of a safeguarded and controlled disarmament program.” Hoover said that the tests are “vital” to the defense of the U.S. and the free world because the possession of nuclear weapons by the West “are the chief deterrent to aggression and to war.” He indicated these tests could not be ended until there is agreement with Russia on disarmament. Assurance By Japan TOKYO (Saturday) — (INS)— The Japanese government today assured its atom-jittery people that they have nothing to worry about 1 in connection with the forthcoming 1 United States atomic tests in the mid-Pacific. The assurance was issued by thft foreign ministry in a public statement announcing that the U.S. state department had declined a Japanese request to suspend further atomic tests. The Japanese statement said that the U. S. has promised to consider the question of compensating Japan in the event of dam- A age or economic loss from nuclear tests this spring. The foreign office statement pointed out: “During the last Bikini tests, radiation tests on fish were undertaken. The results diselosed that the amount of radiation found was . ,not. : sufficient,JMiXr-fehrJß.... to humans' and the tests were ceased. •“Now. the AEG (atomic energy commission) announced on Jan. 12 (Continued on Fag* Five) Argentina Declares Period Os Mourning BUENOS AIRES (INS) —The Argentine government has declared a ten-day period of national mournIng for the late Eduardo Lonardl, who led the revolution which overthrew dictator Juan Peroa. The 59-year-old general, who became provisional president of Argentina after Peron’s ouster, died Thursday. Easter Egg Roll At White House April 2 WASHINGTON (INS) —The traditional Easter egg roll for Washington youngsters will be held April 2 on the south lawn on the White House. Although their Easter, weekend plans are still.uncertain. President and Mrs. Eisenhower are expected to make an appearance, if they are in Washington.