Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 222, Decatur, Adams County, 20 September 1956 — Page 1

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Eases Credit Restriction On Home Building Government Eases Restrictions, Aid For Home Building WASHINGTON (UP)—The government acted today to make it easier for homebuilders and buyers to borrow money. The White House announced a four-point program to spur the lagging housing industry which has been pinched by a tight supply of mortgage money. The actions lowered the downpayment requirement for FHA insured mortgages on homes costing $9,000 or less, from 7 to 5 per cent, and eased credit restrictions affecting some lending institutions. The action was taken by government home financing agencies in response to President Eisenhower's request for a review of housing credit needs in the United States. The actions followed strong complaints from the housing industry that the government's hard money policies are holding down home construction across the nation. They said would-be home owners and builders in many areas are having trouble arranging mortgages because of ‘t'lght money” situations and higher interest rates. Government statistics show that homes are now being built at the rate of 1,100,000 a year, compared with 1,300,000 starts in 1955. The four new actions were: 1. The federal housing administration reduced the minimum down payment on homes appraised at $9,000 or less from 7 per cent to 5 per cent of. value. This revoked an administration action of July, 1955, which boosted the payments on such homes from 5 to 7 per cent of yalue. Current down payment requirements remain in force for FHA home loans above $9,000. Under the new action, buyers of lowcost homes will be able to pay about SIBO less in down payment. 2. Sellers of home mortgages to the Federal National Mortgage Assn, will be required to buy the association's stock at the rat? of only 1 per cent of the value of mortgages sold. Thus, the stock purchase requirement, which was already lowered from 3 per cent to 2 per cent on Aug. 9, is now being reduced to the minimum permitted by law. As a result of this reduction, cash proceeds from the sale of mortgages to FNMA "sec-’ (Continued On Page Five) INDIANA WEATHER “ Fair and cool with" if co st tonight. Lows tonight 30-36. Friday fair and cool. High Friday 60-65. Sunset 6:46 p. rm. Friday 6:31 a. m. 16 Pages

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Whirlwind Tour Is Continued By Nixon Power, Peace And Prosperity Themes ENROUTE WITH NIXON (UP) —Vice President Richard M. Nixon talked of power, peace and prosperity today to the powerconscious voters of the Pacific Northwest. But Nixon stressed as much as anything in his whirlwind tour the “morality” of the Eisenhower administration and the need for a Republican congress to carry out its program. Scarcely rested from Wednesday’s campaigning in California, Nevada and Oregon, Nixon launched into one of the toughest days of his 32-state ordeal. Today's schedule called for him to appear at rallies in Boise and Nampa, Idaho, and in Spokane, Wash., at midnight, he flies to Rapid City, S.D., for a campaign assault on the Midwest Friday. In remarks prepared for appearances at Boise and Nampa, Nixon accused the Democrats of “trying to paint In blacks and whites" the “extremely complicated issue” of power development. He said the opposition’s program of “single shot" federal development of all projects, regardless of their circumstances, “will not work because it cannot tap all the immense resources” of the Northwest states. Nixon urged the re-election of Sen. Herman Welker (R-Idaho), who is challenged by Democrat Frank Church,- with almost the same enthusiasm that he entreated Oregon voters Wednesday night at Eugene to support interior secretary Douglas McKay. McKay is fighting to unseat Sen. Wayne L. Morse (D-Ore.) In the first two days of the 15,000-mile swing, Nixon concentrated his speeches on several main themes —defense of the Eisenhower record, peace and prosperity, the administration's morality and digs at former Presi(Continued on Page Seven) Extra Office Hours To Register Voters County clerk Richard Lewton announced today that his office will be open each Saturday afternoon until 4 p.m. until after Oct for the benefit of those persons who wish to register for voting. The extra office hours will be in effect this Saturday. Lewton also stated that he plans to keep his office open on Wednesday evening until 9:3(T p.m. for shoppers and 'store employes. The Wednesday night hours will be in effect until the Oct. 8 deadline for registration. Registration is also to be made at Democratic and Republican headquarters. All persons who have not voted since before the 1954 elections or _who have .moved into another precinct must be registered in order to vote it) the November election.

Rules City To Improve Rural light Service Commission Also Orders Change In Schedule Os Rates The Indiana public service .commission has ruled that the city of Decatur light and power utility should take immediate steps to install suitable equipment on its rural electric lines to provide customers with an even and sufficient flow of electricity and also that the utility should change its schedule of charges to eliminate residential lighting rates or both city and rural subscribers and charge the combination rates for all cuetoipers. The order further stated that the utility should report its progress within 30 days to the commission concerning immediate plans for service improvement. It also suggested a monthly billing system for rural patrons instead of the present quarterly system. The order was signed by all three members of the commission and certified by Paul Tingle, secretary. Investigation charges of the commission, amounting to $505.09, also were assessed against the city light department. The petition was originally filed on May 21, 1956. complaining on service received by rural patrons and also alleging discrimination in certain charges. A public hearing was held in the court room In Decatur July 17 and was presided over by M. Elliot Belshaw, commissioner. Today’s ruling is the result of the Belshaw report to the full board. The order which abolishes residential rates means that users of electricity just for lighting will receive a benefit in some instances. The combination city rate which the order makes effective for all residential billings is four cents for the first 75 kwh used and previously the four cent rate applied to the first 106 kwh. The next downward rate is three cents for the next 25 kwh and two and a quarter cents for the next 100 kwh and one and one half cents for all over 200. The former residential rate was three cents for the first 25 kwh over the original 100 kwh and two and a half cents for all over the first 125 kwh. Rural residential rates presently are five cents for the first 200 kwh and four and a half cents for all over 200. The rural combination rate which will be charged when (Conttnued on Page Seven) Kefauver Demands Apology By Nixon Apologize To Public For Past Inferences MOORHEAD, Minn. (UP) — Democratic vice presidential candidate Estes Kefauver said today that he and his running mate, Adlai E. Stevenson, see '‘eye to eye” on what Kefauver called the new "sweetness and lightness” campaigning of Vice President Richard M. Nixon. Close associates of Kefauver said that he would hammer away at a demand that Nixon apologize to Democrats for past campaign charges until the No. 2 GOP candidate makes a definite reply. The Kefauver associates noted" that GOP national chairman Leonard W. Hall had kept demanding a statement from Stevenson on Alger Hiss until the Democratic presidential candidate came out with a fiat public statement of belief in the guilt of Hiss. Kefauver Wednesday called upon Nixon to show the sincerity of, his "sweetness and lightness” campaigning by apologizing publicy to Democratic leaders — not named—for past inferences that they were disloyal. Before taking his'whistle stumping tour by plane and auto into Montana today, Kefauver told newsmen that he was "sure that Mr. Stevenson and I see the Nixon matter eye to eye.” In a speech prepared for delivery at a Democratic rally at the Richmond county fairgrounds at Sidney, Mont., Kefauver continued his pitch for votes of farmers. He charged that the Eisenhower administration’s farm policy has 1 been “to. deliberately or otherwise, deflate farm prices.” He also accused Mr. Eisenhower of raising the level of price supports for wheat, a major Montana crop this year, because of a fear ot “a Democratic landslide in the farm states next November.” _ '

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25,000 Strike' Swift And Co. Meat Packers First Major Strike Since 1948 Closes Swift Co. Plants CHICAGO (UP) — More than 25,000 workers walked out today at Swift and Co. plants in 26 states from Massachusetts to California in the first full-scale strike against a major meat packer since 1948. Ten pickets were arrested in an outbreak of violence at the big Swift plant in Chicago’s sprawling stockyards, where company buyers halted all purchase of livestock. Elsewhere around the nation, picketing was reported “quiet and orderly.” Early reports from Swift plants across the country said the company was not attempting to operate plants struck by the United Packinghouse Workers and the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen. The union members walked out last midnight after contract negotiations collapsed. Federal mediators asked Swift and union representatives to meet Monday in an effort to resolve their differences over wages, job differentials, working conditions and a union demand for a union ship. A spokesman for the UPWA said that “to the best of my knowledge, no plants struck by the unions are operating." Department of agriculture marketing men said Swift was "out of the market” here. At South St. Paul, Minn., Swift’s plant manager said no attempt was being made to continue operations. Clerical, supervisory and “clean up” workers were reported entering most plants without interference from pickets. But in Chicago 10 pickets were arrested and charged with disorderly conduct. Capt. George Barnes of the police labor detail said the strikers, including a woman, tried to prevent a Chicago Transit Authority bus from entering tpe Swift plant. Policemen broke up the pickets’ “human blockade,” Barnes said. At Detroit, a Swift official said (Continued on Page Seven) 80 Countries Meet On Atoms For Peace Begin Final Work On Governing Statute UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (UP) — Representatives of 80 countries meet today to begin the final work on a governing statute for the world’s first “atoms-for-peace” agency. — The agency, to be known as the international atomic energy, is the most ambitious phase of the program proposed by President Eisenhower in an address to the United Nations general assembly on Dec. 8, 1953. From February to April of this year, representatives of 12 countries — Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Czechoslovakia, India, France, Portugal, South Africa, Russia, Britain and the United States — did the preliminary work on drafting the agency statute in a closed conference in Washington. The 12 negotiating governments then invited 87 countries — all the members of the U. N. and its spe : ctalized agencies — to the final conference opening here today. Finland, Ireland, Laos, Luxembourg and Sudan declined the sponsors’ invitation, mostly on the ground that they had insufficient purpose would be, in the words of the draft statute, to “soak to aceeb (Continued on Pare Seven)

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Coldest Weather Os Season In Indiana Warn Os Possible • Freezing Tonight By UNITED PRESS The weather bureau hoisted frost Warnings for all of Indiana today and said the mercury may dip below freezing tonight to the coldest readings ever recorded so early in the season. The frost warning affected the entire state, from Lake Michigan to the usually balmy Ohio River area. Forecasts called for low temperatures ranging from 30 —two degrees below freezing — in the north to 32 in the central and 35 in the south. That would put the low at 32 at Indianapolis, coldest temperature ever recorded before Sept. 30 in more than 80 years of U. S. weather bureau statistics. On Sept. 30, 1897, the mercury dropped to 30 in the Hoosier capital. It never got below freezing before Sept. 30 in' Indianapolis before or since. The noon forecast represented a downward revision of low temperatures from an earlier morning forecast. The earlier one called for readings down to 32, and for “scattered” frost. The noon forecast called for “frost” and did not qualify it as "scattered.” Today’s early-morning readings were record-breakers, two days before the arrival of autumn. Indiana temperatures dropped into the mid-30s early this morning in all areas except the extreme soufh^joytion., The first freezing temperature since fast spring may hit the north portion of Hoosierland tonight, and low readings no higher than the mid-30s were predicted all around the state. The weather bureau warned of scattered frost tonight in the north, central and south on the heels of the summer's coolest day. At Indianapolis, a 37-degree reading this morning was the coldest temperature ever recorded fn the Hoosier capital on Sept. 20. It also marked the earliest date in more than 80 years of weather records that a reading as low as 37 was recorded this early in the season. (Continued on Page Seven) Stevenson Maps Counter Attack Planning Speech On GOP Truth Squads WASHINGTON (UP) — Adlai E. Stevenson mapped a counter attack today against the Republican project of following up Democratic campaigners with “truth squads.” Stevenson's press Clayton Fritchey, said the Democratic presidential nominee would have “a few well-chosen remarks" to make on the subject in a speech tonight at nearby Silver Spring, Md. ~ ~ He said Stevenson remarked to his staff that “it is significant the Republicans can make Page 1 headlines by promising to tell the truth." Stevenson will spend the day putting the finishing touches to the speech, conferring with advisers, and working on a series of papers he will issue hitting specific Campaign topics. Fritchey Wednesday revealed Stevenson's plans to hand down formal papers from time to time in the seven weeks before the election. Each will cover a single subject. Two such “policy statements” now are in the works, Fritchey said. One' will cover the: problems of the nation’s old people, and the other will be devoted to schools. Fritchey said these papers will differ from campaign speeches in that they will center on “positive aspects” of his program and go into problems it “much more detail gad depth than Is possible in a political talk.” ■<-

Ike Launches Campaign For Reelection Leaves By Plane * This Afternoon On Visit to Midwest WASHINGTON (UP) — President Eisenhower carried his reelection fight into the crucial midwest farm belt today., He opened his nation-wide campaign here Wednesday night on a Republican record of “progress without precedent.” Mr. Eisenhower will spend this afternoon and most of Friday in lowa, following up on his belief that government policies to meet farm problems must be tailored to peacetime conditions and “not the policies of the past that applied only to the demands of wartime.” The Chief Executive and the First Lady were scheduled to leave by plane this afternoon for Des Moines. A motorcade will take them to Boone where they will spend the night in the house once occupied by Mrs. Eisenhower’s grandmother and father. The Boone home is now the residency of Mrs. Eisenhower's uncle, Joel Carlson. The president Friday will attend the national plowing contest at Newton, lowa. He planned to make a speech at the Des Moines airport during the late afternoon before taking off for the return flight to Washington. Mr. Eisenhower has been making political statements of various lengths since his renomination, but Wednesday night's speech was his 1956 campaign debut on nationwide television and radio. He concentrated on three central themes: The domestic economy has improved vastly under his administration. The effort for world peace sfnce the Republicans took over in 1953 has been successful to the degree that “not a single nation has been surrendered to aggression.” And, in an obvious shot at the Democrats, he opposed “any theatrical national gesture” such as stopping American H-bomb tests (Continued on Page Seven) Monroe Community Days October 5-6 First Annual Event Planned At Monroe Monroe community days will be Friday and Saturday, October 5 and 6, Martin Steiner, president of the Monroe Lions club, has announced. First of what is to be an annual event at Monroe, this year’s community days will begin Friday evening with a free two and one-fcalf hour show by Joe Taylor and the Indiana Redbirds. ' Saturday afternoon the Adams Central senior band, directed by Don Gerig, will present a concert. A ventriloquist-magician act will climax the days with appearances both Saturday afternoon and evening. Water-ball battles for teams of the surrounding. communities and a cakewalk will give visitors a chance to win a trophy or a cake. Dart and basketball throwing, popcorn stands, and a "food tent will be part of the concessions. For the younger community days crowd, there will be pony rides, a kiddie ferris wheel, and a tractor train. — Two Monroe organizations, the Lions club and the Monroe fire department, sponsor the event, and the proceeds are to pay for a new fire truck, this one being for the rural krea around Monrhe, as the present one can not be used hutside bf town.

Illinois Republican Officials Indicted Conspiracy, Fraud Charged To Quartet CHICAGO (UP) — Republican state superintendent of public instruction Vernon L. Nickell and three other men have been reported named in true bills charging conspiracy and fraud against the state. The Cook county (Chicago) ■ grand jury was reported Wednesl day to have named the four men in connection with a controversial contract to Dunbar and Co. to haul surplus foods to schools. Others reported named were James W. Dunbar Sr., GOP probate court clerk of Sangamon county (Springfield) and owner of the firm which held the contract: Frank O. Washam, board of education lunchroom director, and Harold Wolfe, director of the state schools lunchroom program. Nickell, hospitalized in Springfield, declined comment when he heard about the reported true bills. An attorney for Dunbar also declined to comment. The true bills reportedly charge conspiracy to fix food hauling prices to Cook county schools; conspiracy to prevent competition > in surplus food hauling and con- : spiracy to defraud the Chicago I board of education, the city ’of Chicago and the state of Illinois. I The exclusive food-sauHng con- : tract of the Dunbar firm was estl- » mated by a congressional subcomi mittee to have cost taxpayers i 8500,000 above necessary costs i and reaped aq “excessive profit” of >BOO,OOO to 8900,000 for the ■ company. Shortly after the subcommittee - disclosure, the contract with Dun- ' (Coi»unuM on Page Seven) 1 X" Steelworkers Vole To Back Stevenson Annual Convention Adopts Resolution LOS ANGELES(UP) — Adlai Stevenson today had the support of the United Steelworkers of America in campaigning for the nation's highest office. The union at its annual convention Wednesday adopted a resolution to concur in the action of the AFL-CIO executive council in backing the Democratic team of Stevenson and Estes Kefauver. The resolution, which cited the union's traditional policy of political non-partisanship, was adopted by acclamation. It stated: “On the basis of the record, without endorsing either political party and in conformity with our traditional nonpartisan policy, we concur in the action of the executive council and the general board of the AFLCIO in endorsing Adlai Stevenson for president and Estes Kefauver for vice president.” The action came shortly after Stevenson spoke to the 3,000 delegates by telephone from Washington. The Democratic presidential nominee opened his message by saying “1 ask your help to win.” The appeal was answered over the telephone by union President David J. McDonald who declared: “Gov. Stevenson, the steelworkers will present and adopt a resolution endorsing you and Sen. Kefauver for the presidency and vice presidency. And we won’t stop with this endorsement, but will get out and work and spend some money for you.” Local Lady's Brother Dies In California H. L. Archbold, 72, Pasadena, Calif., brother of Mrs. Hosner Lower, of this city died after a short illness, relatves here have learned. He visited here this summer. Surviving are the wife, one son and one daughter. Several grandchildren also survive. Burial was in the California city.

Delay Forming Os Association As Some Balk Delay Will Permit ~ Balky Governments To Study Proposal LONDON (UP)—The Big Three decided today to put off formation of a Suez users association for "10 days or two weeks” until balky governments can study the latest proposals for its organization. A high Western source said the 18-nation London conference is expected to end Friday with adoption of a “draft resolution or charter” which delegates will take back to their governments for final decisions. • The source said it might take two weeks to get the association in business after approval by the various governments and it would be the middle of October before the plan could go into effect. Officials believed Egyptian operation of the/ canal might run into trouble by then. '■ Legal and technical experts went to work today on the terms of the charter. Their assignment was to frame a compromise on the original association plan to make it acceptable to the neutral nations. The committee of experts was formed at this morning's session. At the afternoon session the experts reported back to the full conference on the work they had done. Foreign ministers of the 18 nations waited nearly half an hour for the committee session to wind up. Western sources reported agreement among most of the nations that a users association should be set up. - One top official said replies should come back from the conference nations “in 10 days or two weeks” although no deadline was set immediately. Then the association would be established, probably with a shipping chief, a watchdog board of governors and an operating section of pilots, traffic coordinators and (Hanners. But major disagreement developed over the timing and manner of an appeal to the United Nations if Egypt refuses to deal with the association. As the fourth session of the conference got underway, the United States, Britain and France were standing firm on their intention that the association should use its own pilots in the canal. The American view, however, was understood to rule out any outright boycott of the canal should Egypt reject this. There is no intention of ordering a boycott as long as conditions in the canal are acceptable, it was said, and it would not be the purpose of the users association to provoke an incident along this line. The Americans warned, however, that serious problems could arise, particularly over payment of tolls or the feeling of some shipowners that they do not want Russian pilots aboard their vessels. . , • U. S. secretary of state John Foster Dulles was reported counting on the long haul rather than any immediate strategy to end Egyptian control of the waterway, including a squeeze on the Egyptian economy. Train Derailed In Downtown Franklin FRANKLIN, Ind (UP)—Several box cars in a long Pennsylvania railroad freight train were derailed at a downtown crossing late Wednesday night. The cars left the tracks about midway in' a 93-car train on the railroad* line between Indlanapoli* and Louisville. The derailment Occurred at the Monroe Bt, crossing.

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