Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 155, Decatur, Adams County, 2 July 1956 — Page 1

Vol. LIV. No. 155.

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Secy. Wilson In No Hurry f To Use Fund No Early Step-up In Production Os 852 Jet Bombers WAgHINGTON jUP) — Defense " 'Secretary Charles E. Wilson today told senators investigating air power he isn't going to be in any ~ hurr£_to spend the extra 900-mTT _ liorrdbllarsThat'ThTcg.ess voted the Air Force. -. — But he said he will not refuse to use the money’eventually. Wilson said production of intercontinential BiiJ' iet bomber wjll not be stepped up how. This was the main purpose of Democrats in.; pushing through congress the. f additional appropriation for the air force. The defense secretary disclosed his position on the additional funds shortly after President Elsenhower at Gettysburg signed into law without comment the 000 defense appropriations bill for the 1357 fiscal year which started Sunday. The bill contains the extra. $900.000.000. Wilson said the $900,000,000. will be spent as it is needed "just like any other" appropriation. There had been some congressionay concern that the administration might "Impound” the extra air force money. Congress voted . ta»Mta£ver strong tfmrißtratlon objections. Wilson testified before the_senate armed services subcommittee .on air power. He said the air force has not recommended that production of 852 s be s.tepped ip beyond the present schedule of 20 a month. “And none of us think it should be done.” he added. In answer to a question by gen. Sam J. Ervin Jr. (D-NC), Wilson said he did pot .interpret the voting of extra funds for aircraft procUfrement as an expression of opinion by congress that the planned production of Bs‘2s is* “too low/ U ■ ahrhtßee, SHRDLU .l.i.h, Rather, h< said, he interpreted ’ (Cnntinuea on hakc Wx< Scoreboard Fund GOAL ' v . —' $2,500.00 — $2,000.00 1 I- $1,907.00 -y $1,000.00 — $ 500.00 *t ■ ■ f f- u w » Send your contribution* to ■■ ~~~~ Herman- Krueckeberg, at the Flrat State Bank

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Over $l,lOO Given For Youth Center More Contributions Expected This Week The people of Decatur have responded to the amount of $1,14$ in the birthday party drive of the Decatur Memorial Foundation to date, Theodore Graliker, treasurer, reported today, and numerous checks are still to be added to the s total, . * . y ’ The fufid will be used to make . several improvements at the Youth f and Community Center and checks r 3KIII be accepted all this week, J. } Ward Calland. president of the Foundation, said today. , Letters were mailed last week to every Decatur resident asking for a contribution of a maximum ! of $5 a family. The letter told of ( the needs v at the Center which . could not be met by money from ’ city funds. , “The response has been gratifying.” Calland said, “and I have I talked to several people today who . have placed their checks in today’s . mail.” The letters asking the small do- . nation to observe the first birth- ■ day of the only Youth Center of its kind in Indiana, were* followed . up by telephone calls originating from a group of 150 sorority, club and women’s professional organization members, headed by Mrs. Roy Kalver. Several of the women told Mrs. Salyer today that because of the absence from the city of mtmy residents the telephone calls could not be completed by Ihst Saturday. iF’A'as tnefi decided td-extend the drive this week and Foundation members hope that the money will total more than $2,000. Annual Central Soya Picnic Wednesday Annual Picnit For Employes, Families The annual picnic for employes of Central Soya company and their families will be held Wednesday at Sunset park with the gates opening at 10:30 a.m. The picnic is sponsored by the company and the recreation association. Tickets for the evept are being distributed to the employes and their families: i Serving of the picnic dinner will be from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Games and door prizes are planned and there swill be activities for both children and adults. Food for the picnic is( being planned by a committpe including Doyle . Painter, Lloyd Sheets. Bernita Harvey and Dike Eddleman. In charge of children's/activities are Troy Penning Ana Kehny Nash. Bill and Jess Schlickman are in charge of adult activities. Arrangements for prizes flre being made by 1 Laures Meyer/

Decatur Stores Will Be Open Tuesday Night

New Stoppages Os Work Hit Polish City ’ Riot-Torn Poznan Is Threatened By New General Strike .. _ BERUK 4VP)—New work stopI fees that thMttened U .bIfISSOW 1 into another general strike today ’ hit riot-torn Poxnan. The new stoppages came in the ! midst of an army roundup of suspected leaders of last week’s ; three-day uprising. An estimated 1.000 persons hrve been arrested, witnesses reported. Western businessmen arriving in Berlin from the closed Poznan International Fair said rebellious workers warned they would walk off the job again U the rWign of terror continued. Two armored divisions enforced order in the city and cordoned it off for a relentless manhunt for suspected rebel leaders. Roadblocks were thrown up around thp city. Soldier® with rifles and fixed bayonets made a house-to-huose search and even poked into haystacks in outlying districts as possible rebei hideouts. Westerners arriving here from Poznan, where they attended the fair, estimated that as many as 1,000 persons have taken into custody. j A'.- > Official Polish sources reached in Poxnan by telephone said the general strike which started the uprising last Thursday was over and that factories were operating normally. Western businessmen denied this. They reported hundreds Os factory workers have stopped work and more have threatened to do so. Other workers took part in slowdowns, the businessmen reported. The workers were reoprted sulten and angry over government plans to, try and perhaps execute arrested riot leaders. Men from the two armored divisions, aided by thousands of other soldiers and police, dragged wounded rebels from hiding places and left no afea of the industrial city However, the Poland - East Gerunchecked, many border remained open. The Polish, military mission Berlin (Continued on Page Flva) Fort Wayne Lad Is Drowning Victim COLUMBIA CITY. Ind. (UP) — WillUHf J. Ostrowski,’ 17, Fort ytfatfn*' drowned in Loon Lake hear here Sunday as he swam toward a raft about 100 yards from Shore. Ostrowski apparently suffered a cramp when he was a short distance from the raft. He was visiting relatives at a summer cottage. ■" ; •»•■ ! ’ ' " ' ' ■

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Decatur, Indiana, Monday, July 2, 1956.

Crews Os Helicopters Descend Into Gorge To Retrieve Bodies Os 128

Ike Gives No Hint Os Future Political Plans

Ike Gives No Hint Os Future Political Plans Informs Doctors He Is Feeling Better, Strong'er Each Day GETTYSBURG, Pa. (UP) VPresident Eisenhower told his doctors; today he is “feeling stronger and stronger tach day." - The President gave rb hint, however, aa to urhat effect his Improving condition will have op his political future. Mr. Eisenhower came here Saturday for a convalescence of at "east two weeks after, his Junto 9 operation to correct an intestinal obstruction. The optimistic report on the President’s condition was relayed to newsmen by White House press secretary James C. Hagerty after Mr. Eisenhower held a onehour work session in the downstairs den of his farm home. The President signed 22 bills, including the controversial $34,600,000,090 defence appropriations bill. The chief executive made no comment on the $900,009,000 additional voted by congress for i- the air force. ' - y miner reUef bills. ; Hagerty said the President got e up about 7:30 a. m. and walked t around before and after his work & sessions With presidential assistant Shorman Adams.-Adams flew g to the farm from Washington. 1 4 The doctors tell me he is comj ing along fine, and that he told j them he realizes he ris feeling t stronger and stronger each day,” Hagerty said, J 'He is eagerly looking forward one of these days to using the putting green.” 1 Newsmen bombarded Hagerty ' with questions on the chief execu- i five’s second term intentions. But 1 he gave no clues about the Presi- < ' dent’s thinking on the subject. ; 1 Now that Mr. Eisenhower is out < 1 of the hospital, he will gradually 1 incref te the tempo of his wotk. ] Newsmen expect to hear soon t whether the cabinet and national security council will meet at the 1 Gettysburg farm while the President is recuperating f. om his I June 9 intestinal operation. Mr. Eisenhower’s ability to measure up to the quickening pace he sets for himself could be (Continue* on Page rive) _ 2- ;

City’s Ciitical Power Situation Is Discussed 1

(Editor's note: This is the last in a aeries of four articles discussing the critical power situation in the city of Decatur and the posstole metno(is <niu costs or correct' Ing the situation. Facts presented in this series are based on a report complied by L.' E. Pettibone, superintendent of the light and power department.) Having discussed the estimated difference between purchased powder and locally generated power on a monthly basis in a previous article, a comparison will now be made on comparative costs of -the „ two sources for an entire year based on the 1955 results. j During the year 1955 the indusbusinesses and residences pf . Decatilr and area consumed a net . total of 35 s ,W,Blff KW. • The cost of, generating this ’ amount of powes was $433,940.74 plus in a 'ditional, $75,514,64 for three percent depreciation on the plants. This means thpt the total bill for the yfear was $509,455.38. This amount allowed, the oity light and power department a net profit Os s2f,sot7s. ~ b ‘ During the same year, if the

At Least Four Dead In Violent Storms Wisconsin, Lower Michigan Are Hit By UNITED PRESS V; Violent thunderstorms, -accom- • panied by tornadoes and waterspouts, ripped across Wisconsin and lower Michigan late luday, tniing at least four persons and causing heavy property damage. \ High winds whistling across Lake Michigan sent a seiche or giant wave crashing along the .eastern shoreline, from Ludington. Mich,, northward as far as Grand Traverse Bay. Z A light plane which crashed while attempting to land in a field near Manitowoc, Wis., accounted for one of the state’s fatalities. Killed was Edward Dettmar, 39, West Bend, Wis. The pilot and another passenger escaped with injuries. The other dead all were drowning victims on wind-blown Lake j Winnebago. They ware Joseph i Smolinski, 59, his brother John. 39, both of Menasha, Wis., and i Frank Petzel, 691, Oshkosh, Wis. The Smolinskis died when their boat overturned. Petzel drowned : 'in the capsizing of another boat. Six persons came in safely off the Wolf River near Fremont, Wis. after authorities feared they had drowned; fiaff- sMtfeF drag-,11 ging the river for their bodies. The turbulent weather, heralding a Canadian cold front, set off three smal Itornadoes in central and pastern Wisconsin. Two water spouts were reported seen on Lake Winnebago. The tornadoes were spotted near Madison, Green Bay, Brussels, and Sparta. Comparatively minor damage was reported. Cpastguardsmon said the seiche which swept the shores of Lake Michigan sent water rushing 100 feet past the normal shoreline along Ludington. Beaches had been cleared of swimmers barely one-half hour before the wave approached because of menacing clotds. ''' 1 owerful winds tore roofs from homes and blew down barns as the gusts roared across the Michi(Continued co P»«e Five) NO PAPER WEDNESDAY In accordance with a custom of many years, -t the Decatur Daily Democrat will not publish an edition Wednesday, July. 4, which is Independence Day and 1 a national holiday. f ]

r city had purchased its power from e a private utility at the current t wholesale rates, the total cost f including labor and depreciation would have been $426,360.17.' An . additional $83,895.21 profit would a have been realized for a total prof- g it of $111,592.96. The average coat , per KW after appreciation, gen- , erated was .91425 and the aver- . aged cost per KW purchased would have been .011919. Pettibone's report also shows how other cities compare with De- ( cgtur if the power was purchased. ® Three neighboring communities— . Auburn. Columbia City and Gar- “ rett-—purchase power from Indiana h A Michigan and distribute it them- 11 selves. , -; < - At Auburn during the month of November. 1955, the power output was 2,900.900 KW purchased under a 6.500 maximum demand contract at an average cost per KWH of .00917. Columbia City’s contract is a 3,180 KW maximum demand and the cost to them for one month was .00912, Under a 2,210 KW . maximum demand contract for Garrett, the average cost per KW during one month was .00912. (Conttnuea on Page Five) «..» V X.

Virtually All Production Os Steel Halted Federal Mediation Service Studying Over Intervention PI/TffBUaGH (UP) - The federal mediation service considered today possible intervention in the deadlocked contract dispute between the nation’s basic steel companies and the United Steelworkers which has choked off virtually ait prciuut tioii tn lite vrtai tituuHtry. " . .. ? z . Mediation chief Joseph F. Finnegan planned to talk to USW president David J. McDonald and U. S. Steel Vice president John A. Stephens, chief industry negotiator, and explore “any steps which might be helpful” in ending the strike which now has idled 650,000 workers for two days and threatens to become the worst in the country’s history. McDonald warned Sunday that the shutdown may be “long” unless the industry comes up with a better offer than the one on which it now stands. z Both McDonald and Stephens returned to their Pittsburgh offices hoB-mftsft'Fbmtisprsi*-dented joint conferences between the US# and the “big three" companies blew up Saturday, six hours before the midnight deadline for the strifie. Both sides > expressed readiness to resume negotiations, but steadfastly maintaihed their Widely divergent positions. On his arrival in Pittsburgh Sunday, McDonald said chances of getting peace talks going this week were “re»f»nte ” — Since negotiations for new contracts opened between the union and 172 companies last May 28, government mediators have re(Contlnu«d on Page Five) Lawrence Bulmahn Dies Unexpectedly Native Os Decatur Dies At Fort Wayne Lawi ?nce W. Bulmahn, 51, a native of Decatur, died unexpectedly at 7:25 o'clock Sunday morning in Fort Wayne. Death wa's caused at the Parkview memorial hospital by a cerebral hemorrhage. Mr. Bulmahn, secretary-treasurer of International College In Fort Wayne, has been affiliated with the colleges for 36 years. He was a member of the men’s club of Redeemer Lutheran church and formerly served the church as secretary, financial sec: etary and deacon. Surviving are the widow, Dorothy E.; two daughters. Misses Jean and Carolyn, and a son. Larry, all at home/ his mother. Mrs. Ann A. Bulmahn of Decatur; a sister, Mr« Emelie Bienz of Decatur, and two brothers, Martin and Harold Bulmahn, both of Decatur. ' Funeral services ill be conducted at 1 p.m. Tuesday at the Klaehn funeral home, the Rev; Herbert Lindeman officiating. Burial wjll , be in Lindenwood tfemetery. Friends may call at- the funeral home until time of tire-services." INDIANA WEATHER Mostly fair with chancer of scattered thundershowers , ncrth and central portions tl is afternoon and in central J, and southern portions tonight and Tuesday, Goetef no rth and central tonight. Low tonight 62-70 north and central, in 70c extreme south. High Tuesday 80s north, 90s south.. / Sunset 8:17 p. sunrise . Tuesday 5:22 a. nL 7

To Withhold Slate | Aid To Two Cities Charges Failure To Repay State Loans INDIANAPOLIS (UP) — State auditor Curtis. -Rardin announced today the withholding-of state aid from Gary and Terre Haute, wo ,of Indiana's largest cities and l»oth headed by Democratic administrations. Rardii said he will withhold $16,625 from Gary this month and $10,900 hi state alcoholic gallonage taxes from JTerre Haute for failure to repay state loans. Ralph Tucker, the Democratic gnbernatorial choice, is mayor of Terre - Haute, Peter 'Mandich Gary’s mayor* helped put Tucker ovtor in last Tuesday’s Democratic nominating convention. Rafdin announced hs will also withhold another $16,000 from Gary in October and an additional SIO,OOO from Terre Haute. Gary borrowed $31,625 in 1946, he said, and Terre Haute got $20,000 from the state postwar planning revolving fund in 1947. The loans were repayable within five years. Rardin said he has heard “absolutely nothing” regarding repayment from Gary. He added he was notified by Terre Haute officials they could not repay this year without raising property ... Rarditi denied the witWrtfwals were politically-motivated. “I couldn’t look into my srystal ball to see who the Democratswould nominate,” he said. “I cer- ( tainly would be derelict in my . duties as auditor if I didn't make . an attempt to get the money back . . * - l Gary was to have received , $39,000 in (he July 15 distribution, . Terre Haute SIB,OOO. Suspend Business In City July 4 Most Retail JYures .Open Tuesday Night Business will generally be suspended in Decatur Wednesday. July 4. as the city joins the nation in observance of this country’s independence Day. / _ j The majority of the city’s re- , tail stores will be open until 9 j o’clock Tuesday night to accomo- , date holiday shoppers, and will als(O be open Thursday afternoon of this | week only, foregoing the usual Thursday noon closing because of ( the holiday. ; ■ Exceptions to the July 4 closing ( will be such business houses, as some restaurants, confectioneries, , filling stations, theaters and tav- . eins. „ County and city offices will be J closed, th’' library and bank will J close, the: e will be no mail deli- ( verses, except special delivery, I and the Daily Democrat will not publish an edition. The city Swim- t ipihg Pool will observe regular holiday hours of 2 to 5 No public celebration of any kind is planned and the only fireworks display will be the annual , show at the Decatur Drive-in thea- . ter at dusk Wednesday. t Rites Held Today t For Porter Twins Graveside services were held at 1 the Decatur cemetery this afternoon for Yvette, and Yvonne Perter, twin girls born prematurely to 1 William and Clara Sauer-Porter, 1 421 Fornax afreet. The ? infants s died a few hours after birth SupC' day at the Adams county memorial -i hospital. I Surviving in addition to the parents are the grandparents. Mr. and 8 Mrs. Phil Sauer and Mr. and Mrs. I Vane Porter. The-Rev. O. jC. Busse 1 at the storyice, conducted I by the Black funeral home.

World's Worst Commercial Plane Crash I Two Airline Planes < Apparently Collided Over Grand Canyon GRAND CANYON VILLAGE, Aril. (UP) —A helicopter rescue team descended into a death-filled gorge of the Grand Canyen of the Colorado River today to retrieve remains of the bodies of 128 vlc- ! time of the world's worst com[merciai plane disaster. ! The plane citrried acting coroner Shelby McCauley, who said he I would remain at the site until all i bodies are / .removed. Departure i was delayed because of mechanical ■ trouble and a second helicopter containing photographers and a i pool reporter was to leave later. . Four cargo helicopters stood by I at Winslow. Artz., to drop into the i treacherous canyon to assist in re- ■ moval of the bodies when clearance given for the landing by the first plane. The group planned to attempt removal of the 70 bodies i from the wreckage of a Trans i World Airlines passenger , plane which apparently collided with a Unitfid 4jr Lines glane Saturday, j The 58 bodies in the UAL wreck- " age perched on a sheer qjjtt a"' mile away' possibly never will be Government officials launched i an investigation into the crash to I determine for sure whether the two planes collided in_ mid • air I in the nation’s first fatal collision of two airliners and then dropped into the huge, rocky gash in the Painted Desert. They said there was only a ■'‘ana-iu-temmillion':. . I chance that the two super-airliners met with separate mishaps at the same instant and fell into the ’gorge. — . Investigators; piecing together all the information available, theorized that the TWA plane, climbing to get out of a Storm, flew I right into the beHy of the UAL ! plane and both plunged almost j straight down and burned. None iof the 128 persons in either plane i had a chance. Hal, Wood. United BptMA staff correspondent who flew oxeF the scene Sunday, sajd “I flew town to within a few/Teet of the ptoca where the crashed and the biggest jfiece of wreckagA I saw was a Jepeel." V He saitF Hie canyon’s tricky air currents “tossed our little Cessna 100 plane around like a straw in I - tornado.”, s The wreckage of the TWA planu,. was afi Sted Saturday after anxious daylong search and thi ’ £ shattered remains -of the UAI| V planet were sighted Sunday morn-i : ing,/only about a mile down thei colorful canyon carved by the- j rushing Colorado River. ■ ■There was no sign of life around I the wreckage and a helicopterj? crew which landed in the gorged I later Sunday confirmed that alb I 128 bad died instantly. “ j- J Officials hoped that treacherous J winds would claim no more lives in the gorge by slamming helicopters against granite cliffs. The. helicopter group, according to plans set up by Capt. Byrd Ryland, commanding the rescue team, will either ferry the bodies to the ton of the rim for transfer to other planes or direct to the temporary morgue set up in .the national guard armory jn Flagstaff. Ariz. ■" Ryland said 'it was "unlikely" that any bodies from the UAL plane would be recovered. The TWA wreckage is scattered along an accessible ledge on Chuar Butte 500 feet about the Colorado River, a raging torrent at that .. point. But the UAL wreckage’ is (Continued on Page

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