Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 216, Decatur, Adams County, 13 September 1956 — Page 1

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FATHER DELIVERS HIS OWN SON I ' H jflßßp m»? V y. I > ■■■:! fl *** " U? fl t --5- ; ' : ■■■ -v-TwCy': >■>' k ’• <| tR» .■ I ■ v, x,-_ * FRANCIS W. HANRAHAN, a South Boston, Mass., police-patrolman, looks proudly at his wife, Gloria, 26, and their son after Mrs. Hanrahan lost a race with the stork. When Hanrahan arrived home from his tour of duty, his wife said the stork was very near. He called police headquarters, but before transportation arrived he had delivered the baby, unaided.

Breakdown At City's Power Plant Today

A breakdown at the city’s steam generating plant on Third street which occurred shortly after midnight last night, has not yet had any serious effect on industrial and residential consumers. Although some adjustments in schedules have been made by General Electric, Central Soya and Yost’s Construction companies. no major work stoppages have resulted from the trouble at the steam plant. L. R. Pettibone, superintendent of the light and power department, stated this morning that the reduced generating capacity is caused by loss of the big boiler. He said that it is believed that a leak has developed in a tube in the economizer of the boiler. However, this morning the boiler was still too hot to enter for a closer examination of the trouble. Pettibone indicated that they expect to work around the clock until the boiler is back in operation. He added that, unless the trouble is worse than expected, the boiler will be back in operation by Monday morning. Without the big boiler the city is able to produce about 89 cent of the demand. This is accomplished by running the diesel plant on Dayton avenue at full capacity. -- While the effects of the breakdown are not felt by residential consumers, almost all of the local industries have been forced to make adjustments. At the General Electric company, the plating section and large ovens have been shut down to reduce the G. E. electrical demand. Workers in these sections have been temporarily placed on other jobs but it was stated that' if the power shortage continues it will be necessary to lay off some workers. The power shortage has also affected Yost’s, where operation of the rock crusher which' draws a large amount of power has been curtailed. Other industries of the city, including the smaller ones, have also been asked to conserve as much electricity as possible by re-arranging production schedules to lighten the general power demand. The latest trouble at the steam plant emphasizes the critical situation in the city’s power department. In an effort to remedy the problem, city officials have been negotiating with IndianaMichigan for the purchase of additional power.— Decatur’s electrical demands have increased sharply in recent years and the capacity to produce has not kept pace with the increase. Because of the major cost involved in adding to the city’s own power production equipment, it ifi generally believed that purchasing added power from a private utility is the best solution to the critical shortage. City officials, including Maybr Robert Cole and city attorney John L. DeVoss, were out of the city today attending a meeting in Indianapolis ‘ and were not available for any statement as to how soon contract negotiations would be—completed.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT I ONLY DAILY NIWtPAPBR IN ADAMS COUNTY

Ike Launches Vote Campaign At GOP Rally Scores Complacency In Party In Speech At Gettysburg Farm GETTYSBURG. Pa. (UP)—President Eisenhower put the spurs his own party today to combat admitted GOP “apathy” in the 1956 campaign. From the President on down through the rank/ of Republican state leaders, the cry from Gettysburg was, “get ’em registered, then get ’em to vote Republican." The President personally sounded a call for an end to GOP complacency in a speech opening his re-election campaign at a picnic rally on his own farm here. Republican .professionals from every state crowded a big tent on Mr. Eisenhower’s east pasture to listen to an afternoon of party pep talks and picnic with Mr. and Mrs. Eisenhower on fried chicken, roast beef, ham and potato salad. Mr. Eisenhower’s central theme was “Get out the vote.” Calling for a record registration, he said “it would be tragic” if the Republcans whip up the public’s zeal by election day only to find that “half of the people couldn’t vote.” The President also advised the more than 700 GOP leaders that "with all the other ammunition you have you can get to the voters with a grin on your face.” “Don’t underestimate the value of a grin,” said the owner of the famous Eisenhower smile. “Pessimism never won a battle.” Earlier Vice President Richard M. Nixon and GOP national chairman Leonard Hall hit hard again and again at Democratic standard bearers Adlai Stevenson and Estes Kefauver. They also took some swings at former President Truman. -■“* ' ■ ‘ ' -» Nixon accused Stevenson of “political fakery and irresponsibility” for asserting that the United States is losing the cold war and for advocating repeal of the draft as soon as possible. ___ , Hall said Stevenson has been posing fol “foolish pictures” and making “silly statements.” “I feel confident the people of the United States will see through the sham and hyprocrisy of the Democrat song-and-danee team of Adlai, Keef and Harry,” he said. The President got one of his biggest hands at the very opening of his 25-minute speech. “I want, first of all, to answer a question I have been asked every day for just about a year,” he said. The audience looked a bit puz(Contlnued On Page Five) 12 Pages

Three Dead As Bus And Truck Collide Today 22 Others Injured In Head-on Crash At Monroe, Michigan MONROE, Mich. (UP) —Three persons were killed, one was critically injured and 21 others suffered serious to minor injuries and. burns when a scenicruiser bus collided head-on with a haulaway truck carrying six Cadillacs early today. After the crash, the truck burst into flames, setting the bus afire. Dead were the truck driver and two bus passengers. One of the dead passengers, a middle-aged or elderly woman, was badly burned and still unidentified. The truck driver killed was Francis G. Pesko, Detroit. The first identified dead passenger was Mrs. Frankie Mae Sample. 38, Detroit. The bus driver was Charles R. Kier, 47, New Kensington, Pa., in critical condition at Mercy hospital tn Monroe. He suffered severe burns and cuts. Deputy sheriff Richard Rauth, one of the first officers to the scene, said “we are still pretty well in doubt as to what happened. It was a head-on collision but since the bus driver is in critical condition, the truck driver is dead and none of the passengers were witnesses to the crash, we just don’t know. “But the bus was hit on the right front and the truck on the left front. It looks like somebody came clear across the highway,” he said. The bus was enroute from Pittsburgh to Detroit with about 24 passengers and the driver. The Greyhound Bus Co. said it does not keep records and therefore cannot state the exact number of passengers. Decatur Lady's Aunt Dies At Huntington Mrs. Cora B. Cutshall, 85, lifelong resident of Huntington, died Tuesday night after an illness since May. Survivors include a niece, Mrs. Marguerite McClenahan, of Decatur, who was reared in the Cutshall home. Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p. m. Friday at the Briggs funeral home in Huntington, Dr. Norbert G. Talbott officiating. Burial will be in Mt. Hope cemetery. Training Course To Girl Scout Leaders First Course To Be Held Next Tuesday Mrs. Charles Jessup, training chairman for the Decatur Girl Scout council, today announced that a training course for Girl Scout and Brownie leaders wilt be held at the Youth and Community Center next Tuesday afternoon at 1 o’clock. The next meeting dates will be announced at that time. There is no charge for the course. Anyone interested in scouting, leaders, troop committeewomen and mothers are invited to attend any or all sessions, and leaders from other communities are invited to attend. This year, Decatur has its own volunteer trainer, Mrs. Lowell Harper. She recently completed the volunteer trainer’s course, and is well qualified as a teacher and is an experienced Girl Scout leader. Leaders will be given an opportunity to see new materials, learn new skills and ways of work and exchange ideas. The course will open with basic helps and suggestions, giving the more important things first and following in sequence with information about: I—girls;l—girls; 2 —activities; 3—program planning; 4—troop government; s—Girl Scout aims; 6— resources. (Continued On jPage Five) 18-Month-Old Boy Drowned In Barrel' LAPORTE. Ind. (UP) — Police said Wednesday 18 - month -old Gerald Lanie, son of the Henry Lanies, Jr., LaPorte, drowned in 10 inches of water in a sunken drainage barrel. The child apparently removed the lid of the barrel bqhind his parents’ home Tuesady night. He was found partially submerged by his sister, Lois, 14. ®

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, September 13,1956

United States Will Not Get Into Shooting War In Suez Scrap--Dulles

Association To Hire European Canal Pilots Users Association Plan Rejected By Egyptian Leader LONDON (UP) — Foreign secretary Selwyn Lloyd said today the new Anglo-French Suez association will hire the European canal pilots now quitting in Egypt and “keep them at work.” He told parliament that Britain and France plan to summon the main users of the canal to a meeting to discuss putting the “association” into operation. Lloyd conceded “grave practical differences” were arising in carrying out the bold strategy disclosed by Britain and France Wednesday to break Egyptian control of t.he vital waterway. Italy sent the proposal back for clarification. Pakistan, a member of the five-power Dulles plan committee, was understood to oppose it. Indian prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru called the new plan “an' imposed solution” which brings “grave risks of conflict.” But prime niMrister Anthony Eden staked his political future on breaking Egyptian control of the 101-mile lifeline through the AngloFrench plan. Eden has demanded a vote of confidence at the conclusion of the emergency debate in the house of commons tonight (around 4 p.m. CST). Eden revealed the move before the house Wednesday. He spid it had U. S. backing and indicated it was American-inspired. Egypt promptly rejected the plan as a provocation that would lead to war. An official Egyptian spokesman charged that "certain nations’* intended to commit aggression against Egypt’s lawful rights. Its delegate to the United Nations was instructed to warn member nations and U.N. secretary general Dag Hammarskjold that Britain and France would be responsible for any interruption with shipping in the canal. Egypt said it had “pre-arranged plans” to continue traffic despite the walkout of the veteran European canal pilots. Representatives of the foreign pilots of Port Said said new instructions had been received moving up the quitting deadline to midnight Friday. There was some confusion among diplomatic observers on the U. S.' attitude toward the new canal users association. Israelis Report Border Incidents Claim Three Guards Slain By Jordanians JERUSALEM (UP) — Israel charged today that Jordanian infiltrators killed three village guards Wednesday night, increasing to 34 the number of Arabs and Israelis killed in three days of border incidents. Israeli military spokesman Maj. Dan Gov said the guards wre killed at Eln Ofarim. halfway between Beersheba and Elat. Israeli sources said border incidents were on the increase since the start of thq Suez crisis. The British foreign office in London .today expressed “strong disapproval” at what it said was the Israel government’s “violation” of assurances, to observe the cease-fire. At least 24 Arabs were killed Wednesday in what preliminary investigations showed were apparrently Israeli incursions into Jordanion and Egyptian territory. The slaying of the Israelis today was apparently Jordanian retaliation for Wednesday’s raids by Israeli troops which, in turn, were believed to be retaliation for the death of six Israelis Monday.

■a .r- — Check Presented To Community Center Given By Wisehaupt Proceeds Os Clinic A check for 1804 was presented to the Decatur Youth and Community center this morning by Howard Wisehaupt, representing the entire receipts for the series of courtesy week clinics held at the center this week. The total was increased la- ‘ ter this morning with a 310 check 1 from Adolph Kolter. 1 A total of 201 individuals, from 1 firms, offices and industries in the 1 community participated in the affair held Tuesday, Wednesday and 1 Thursday mornings as the opening 1 of courtesy week in Decatur. , Merchants are following through With special offerings of merchandise and friendly service this week. Wisehaupt informed the group ’ today that paying attention to cus- ' tomers and friends was one of the r important factors in making a sale. 1 He went through with the steps necessary in closing a sale. ’ He illustrated the necessity of courtesy by telling the story of a Southern city where the friendli1 ness of a town marshal and a furniture dealer to a tourist resulted | in the establishment of a fine new 1 industry in the community. He said 1 that every citizen is a salesman for hlsuhome town. firms and persons who enrolled in the clinic today were: the Reppert School of Auctioneering. W. Guy Brown, superintendent of the Decatur schools, and Mrs. Alva Baker. •4k the close of the clinic, Wiseharrpt was presented with a key to the city by Bob Heller, president of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce, and was also given a commission signed by chief of police James Borders, making him an honorary colonel in the Decatur police department. He was given a check for the tickets sold which he presented in its entirety to the Decatur Memorial Foundation. Theodore Graliker, treasurer of the foundation, accept- - (Continued On Page Five) Wickard Says GOP Is Party For Few Prosperity Claim Labeled As False VINCENNES, Ind. (UP) — Former agriculture secretary Claude R. W’ickard charged today Repub- ' lican prosperity is “lopsided and top - heavy,” because it means prosperity “for just a few.” He told a meeting of service elubs the nation spent two per cent more for national security in the last four years than from 1947 to 1953. Thus, he said, "the Republican claim to a peacetime prosperity is false.” Wickard, Democratic senatorial nominee, cited “severe unemployment” in July in numerous major Hoosier cities, including Evansville, South Bend, Terre Haute and Muncie. Farmers, he said, are not participating tn any prosperity “under the present administration. Last year, they went more in debt than in any other year except 1923.” “Big business is getting bigger and more powerful and small business is getting smaller and weaker,” said Wickard. “This Increasing disadvantage for laboring people .. . is more-than a matter of injustice—it is retarding the growth of America.” • INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy north, mostly fair central and south tonight ■ and Friday. Continued warm but turning cooler Friday north and central. Low. tonight 65-70, high Friday 75-80 north, 85-95 central and south. Outlook for Saturday: Moatly fair .and pleasant, high mostly in 70s north to near 90 extreme £ south. Sunset 6:58 p.m., sunrise Friday 6:25 a.m.

Stevenson On TV And Radio This Evening 30-Minute Speech Tonight To Start Formal Campaign HARRISBURG, Pa. (UP) —Adlai E. Stevenson worked on his campaign "kickoff” speech today and his running mate, Estes Kefauver, denounced Republican “get poor quick” farm policies. Stevenson delivers a 30-minute talk over all three national television networks and four radio networks at 9:30 p. m. EDT to signal the formal start of his Democratic presidential campaign. Between 5,000 and 10,000 persons are expected to pay SSO a plate at a cold buffet dinner to hear Stevenson’s speech ih the Farm Show Building here. Press secretary Clayton Fritchey decided to comment on the topic of the speech but said it will “develop one of the important themes of this campaign.” Stevenson arrived by plane from New York early today and went to the mansion of Democratic Gov, George M.; Leader to spend the night. An aide said Stevenson would devote almost all of his time at the mansion today to whipping the speech into final form, following his custom of rewriting it almost up to the moment of delivery. Campaign manager James A. Finnegan said the Democrats will pay $200,000 for the radio and television time for this single “saturation” broadcast. It was reported Stevenson received pledges of enough money at a fund-raising dinner to cover the cost of tonight’s broadcast. One .source placed the amount raised at $325,000. While Stevenson worked on his speech, Kefauver was scheduled to drive 25 miles to speak at the county fair at York—in the same congressional district as President Eisenhower’s Gettysburg farm. In his prepared speech, Kefauver noted his listeners were “practically neighbors” of Mr. Eisenhower. He said he felt sure they would “welcome him back to Gettysburg next January and to the (Continued On Page Five) Mrs. Sarah Ybarra Is Taken By Death Funeral Services Saturday Morning Funeral services will be held here Saturday for Mrs. Sarah Ybarra, 37, former Decatur resident. who died late Monday night at the Cook county hospital, Chicago, 111., following an illness of three years. She was born Jin Kansas City, Mo.. Jan. 15, 1919, a daughter of Joseph D. and Maria Zavala-Cor-ral, and was married to Louis Ybarra in Decatur in 1943. The family moved to Chicago in 1945. Mrs. Ybarra was a member of St. Francis of Assisi Catholic church in Chicago. —-... Surviving in addition to her husband are her parents, who now reside in Clovis, Calif.; four children, Marcus, Manuel, Arthur -and Gloria; two brothers, Amalio L. and Joseph Corral, Jr., both of Clovis, Calif., and three sisters, Mrs. Fileman Tezia of Chicago, Mrs. Joseph A. Vela of Sacramento. Calif., and Mrs. Salvador Jaurequi of Decatur. Services Will be held at 9 a. m. Saturday at St. Mary’s Catholic church, the Very Rev. Msgr. J. J. Seimetz officiating. Burial will be in the Catholic cemetery. Friends may call at the Zwjck funeral home after 7 o’clock this evening until time of the services.

Eisenhower Relaxes At Gettysburg Farm Probable Return To White House Friday GETTYSBURG, Pa (UP)—President Eisenhower relaxed at bis farm today astern opening his reelection campaign with a political pep rally in his front yard. He planned to remain at least through today possibly playing golf in the late morning at the Gettysburg Country Club. The President probably will return to the White House Friday to confier with Australian foreign minister Robert Menzies about the Suez crisis. Menzies headed the Western— backed delegation at the now collapsed Carlo talks. All that remained of the big carnival — like picnic were scattered papers in the President’s peaceful meadow near his farmhouse. Workman .began rapidly raking up. More than 700 GOP leaders from throughout the nation crowded the three sign-pastered tents pitched on the farm Wednesday afternoon. Some signs said: “If he’s not registered. he ain’t got equal rights” and “Register and give Ike a GOP congress.” The President arrived 35 minutes early dressed in a tan sports jacket and dark brown slacks. Mrs. Eisenhower remained at the house and joined him later. ” Vice President (Richard M. Nixon and Mrs. Nixon arrived in their iimousipe about the same time as the President. The vice president sent Mrs. Nixon up to the house to see Mrs. Eisenhower. A few minutes later big buses began churning up the Eisenhower drive carrying hundreds of Republican state leaders and they settled down in the main tent for the speeches. ~ It was virtually a political family get-together. There was no national television or “live radio coverage. As far as a nationwide audience is concerned, Mr. Eisenhowed will make his first national TV campaign address Sept. 19 from Washington. Burris Resigns As First Aid Chairman Gerald Durkin Is I Named Successor The resignation of Art BuiTis as first aid and water safety 1 chairman of the local Red Cross 1 was accepted at a meeting of the 1 Red Cross board of directors 1 Wednesday evening. The board in accepting his ’ resignation, expressed appreciation to him for his service in the 1 first aid and water safety pro- 1 gram of the Adams county chap- 1 ter. The board immediately named 1 Gerald Durkin of Decatur to sue- 1 ceed Burris. Mrs. Roger Single- 1 ton, also of Decatur, was named 1 co-chairman to assist Durkin in 1 the program. Another “ appoint- ’ ment made by the board at Wednesday: night's meeting was .lack Rayer Os Decatur as disaster ’ chairman for the area. In addition to accepting reports of various chairmen, the board meeting featured presentation of certificates of appreciation tp 27 volunteer workers who have donated over 106 hours of service to the chapter. Recipients of the certificates for work in the blbod program were Mrs. tt E. Archbold, Mrs. Ed Bauer, Mrs. Dan Brant, Mrs. Alva Buffenbarger, Mrs. H. P. i Engle, Mrs, Roscoe Glendening, Mrs. Clinton Hersh, Mrs. Joseph Hunter, Miss Fan Hamiftell, Mrs. , Bert Haley, Mrs. William Keller, Mrs. Lowell Harper, Mrs. Herman Krueckeberg, Mrs. Norman 1 Kruse, Mrs. Hersel Nash, Mrs. Arnold Ostermeyer, Mrs. Edgar 1 Reinking, Mrs. Robert Railing, ' Mrs. T. C. Smith, Mrs. Norbert i Gase, Mrs. Lester Lehman, Mrs. ] Alfred Marhenke and Mrs. Char(Coatinued On Page Five)

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Dulles Issues No-War Views On Suez Scrap Says U.S. Ships To By-Pass Suez, Make Trip Around Africa WASHINGTON(UP) — Secretary of state John Foster Dulles said today the United States does not intend to get into a shooting war even if Egypt blocks the Suez Canal by force. If necessary, he said U. S. ships will by-pass Suez and go around Africa. Dulles issued his "no war” statement at a news conference minutes after the Egyptian ambassador . warned him personally that it “means war” if the West carries out its plan to create a “users association” to run the canal. Despite the warning,_ Dulles said the United States will join Britain and France in the association to “safeguard” the rights of shipping nations to free use of the canaL He appealed to Egypt to accept the plan at least as a temporary working arrangement.” Dulles called the plan a basis for “a just, yet peaceful settlement’,’ of the Suez crisis. The secretary waM the United States might have a right to go (o war if the canal ever is closed. But he said it does not intend to. He emphasized he could not 1 speak for other nations. Dulles outlined the U.S. position to newsmen minutes after Egyptian Ambassador Ahmed Hussein, acting on instructions from Cairo, called on him. the Egyptian embassy issued this statement: “On instructions from the Egyptian government ambassador Ahmed Hussein met this morning a tew minutes before 11 o’clock with secretary of state John Foster Dulles and conveyed the urgent message that the scheme which Sir Anthony Eden wants to impose on Egypt is an open and flagrant aggression on Egyptian sovereignty and its implementation means war. “If the United States desires war then she may support the scheme but if her desire is to work for a peaceful solution the scheme has to be abandoned.” At his news conference, Dulles said Egypt's initial reaction to the proposed “users association” has not deterred this country from going ahead with the plan. He said he does not believe Egypt fully understands the proposal and hopes that, on reflection, it will appreciate that it is a genuine effort to reach a working peaceful arrangement with Cairo. He said this diversion would be> more expensive, of course, but that the United States believes it would not be catastrophic. He said it already has been decided to take some U, S. tankers out of the mothball reserve fleet to divert oil and other traffic around the continent of Africa if. anything should happen to deny passage of the canal. Will Join Association Dulles said this country will join the proposed “users association” if Britain and France’ are its only He hoped it will be moving well toward organization next week. Dulles said that the United States has reason to be confident that at least some other nations besides the United States. Britain and France will join the new association. However, he indicated these other partners may be few. He pointed out that only five countries — Britain, the United States, France. Italy and Norway—control 75 per cent of the shipping using the Suez Canal. Dulles’ statement was designed to clear up reported, “confusion" in foreign capitals over the U. S. position on the “user association” plan which was announced in the British Parliament Wednesday by PrSßie Minister Sir Anthony Eden. Egypt has rejected the proposal (Continued On Page Five) ■ _