Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 245, Decatur, Adams County, 17 October 1956 — Page 1

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WILLIAM JOSEPH BRENNAN, a New Jersey Democrat, holds his daughter. Nancy. 7. as Mrs. Brennan adjusts his robe prior to his induction as a Justice of the Supreme Court. He replaces retired Justice Sherman Minton on the High Court bench.

Ronald Reagan GuestfOf Honor In City Tuesday

By MARLENE LAURENT Ronald Reagan, now an honorary colonel in the Decatur police force and the owner of a key to the city, was Decatur’s guest of honor Tuesday through the courtesy of the _ General Electric company, which sponsors his Sunday night television program. The many Decatur residents who had the opportunity to meet 0. E.’s good will ambassador, found him a pleasant and charming individual. While he was here, Reagan met and talked with hundreds of General Electric employes, civic officials and leaders, high school students and other local citizens. The noted television and motion picture personality was kept busy with a schedule of several events through the day in his honor. Only flaw was a mistake in the time of arrival, The time mixup in Indiana caused a misunderstanding and he arrived in Decatur at 1:30 p.m., an hour later than he was expected. On his arrival he was taken to the Deeatur Youth aflfl Commuttfity Center where he talked to a group of local G. E. foremen and supervisors. Next on the schedule was the tour of the local plant to meet employes of both, Shifts. He was guest of honor at a public reception late Tuesday afternoon at the community center and then attended a civic dinner tn his honor at the center. Among those* attending the dinner, which was co-sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce, the Lions club and the Rotary club, were several General Electric officials. They included Harold A. MacKinnon. vice-president of the component products division, of G. E. of which Decatur Is a part; Kenneth Williams, advance manufacturing development manager; Eugene Henry, general purpose motors finance manager; William Bogges, general purpose motors marketing manager; Charles E. Slater, manager of employe and plant relations: L. W. Kuttner, manufacturing manager. and H. Y. Weatherbee, communications specialist. Also introduced were George Auer, local plant manager, and two former Decatur plant managers. Eno W. Lankenau and John F. Welch. Robert Heller, president of the Chamber of Commerce, served as master of ceremonies and he also introduced Joseph Kaehr, president of the Rotary club, and Harry Schwartz, Lions club president. In his talk, which was the highlight of the dinner, Reagan came to the defense of the people of Hollywood who are in the motion picture industry. He stated that most people look upon show people as degenerated, immoral and irresponsible and then cited facts to prove that this was not true. The main subject of his talk was concerned with Communism in Hollywood. He explained how Communists gained their foothold there for the avowed purpose of closing down the movie industry which was producing powerful propaganda for the United States. He showed how many persons in Hollywood who are loyal Americans were deceived and added that when they finally became aware of the Communist infiltration, they fought it. Reagan pointed out that a large group of actors and others in the movie industry went to work- to find out about the Communist element and then presented all their information to the house un-Ameri-can activities He criticized this committee for publicizing Communism in Hollywood without indicating that this information had come from other persons in Hollywood. Reagan’s audience Tuesday (Continued on Psge Six)

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Coast Guard's Rescue Lauded By Survivors Coast Guard Cutter To San Francisco With 31 Survivors SAN FRANCISCO (UP) — The coast guard cutter Pontchartrain sped toward San Francisco today with 31 persons who survived the crash-landing of a luxury Ran American World Airways Stratoclipper at sea. The Pontchartrain took the 24 passengers and seven crewmen aboard after the f 1.5 million plane pancaked into the ocean 1045 mile amrthwest of San Francisco Tuesday. Two of the plane’s four motors had gone out. The rescut itself took only 21 minutes. It was carried out with incredible smoothness. Five persons suffered minor hurts. Capt. William K. Earle, skipper of the Pontchartrain. said waiting for the plane to crash-land proved to be the "toughest thing” of the whole operation “We were at our rsecue stations and on the alert for five hours,” he said. But the passengers on the plane, once they got over their initial nervousness, were calm. They credited their captain, Richard Ogg, and the crew for making the whole thing seem “routine.” Ogg put it simply: “There was no alternative but to ditch. There was no panic and the operation was orderly throughout. Some of us got our feet wet, but not one was actually in the water.” But to Richard Gordon of* Silver Springs. Md., and his wife? Jane, it was more than a routine operation. “Ogg and the crew were wonderful,” Gordon said. “If it had not been for their calming manner, I don’t see how we could have done as well as we did.” Gordon said he, his wife, and their twin girls, Maureen and Elizabeth, were asleep at the time. Mary E. Daniel, one of three stewardesses aboard, praised the passengers in turn for “obeying orders and doing everything we asked.” Asked what the passengers did while waiting to ditch, she said: “They asked questions. They pertinent questions . . . they were sat around and thought up more very relaxed and well-behaved.” The Stratoclipper began having trouble with its engines shortly after 7 a.m. EDT. At that time, the plane had reached the point of no return on its flight from Honolulu to San Francisco. The flight had originated in Tokyo on Monday. Ogg decided to ditch the plane near the Pontchartrain. which has been seeing duty at the weather station "November.” Milk Prices Boosted In Decatur Today Milk prices were increased in Decatur this morning, both in retail store’s and tn home deliveries. Price of homogenized milk by the quart was increased twq cents to 23 cents and by the half gallon four cents, to 44 cents. Prices of other milk products were increased in accord* ance. ■ ■

Five Argonne Physicists Back * Stevenson Plan Nuclear Physicists Back Stevenson On Halting Bomb Tests By UNITED PRESS Scientific and public response fanned the political fires of both parties today into major debate on Adlai E. Stevenson’s pledge to strive for world agreement to end H-bomb tests. Stevenson’s promise to negotiate at any place and at any level if ly> is elected president brought ms biggest fan mail of the campaign. His proposal drew immediate rebuttal from Vice President Richard M. Nixon, secretary of state John Foster Dulles and former GOP presidential nominee Thomas E. Dewey. Hundreds of telegrams, including numbers from scientists of international reputation, poured into Stevenson's Chicago campaign headquarters and his home in Libertyville, lIL Five physicists at the Argonne National* Laboratories, Lemont, 111., telepgraphed Stevenson that nuclear physicists "firmly believe your plan far from being ‘catastrophic nonsense’ is workable, wise and in the best interests of the United States.” Nixon had used the phrase, “catastrophic nonsense,” in condemning Stevenson's plan. The President made passing reference to the proposal in a campaign talk at Minneapolis Tuesday. He asked whether “these politicians” were blind to administration efforts to dedicate atomic power to peace. Dulles torn a new r s conference that “if there is an effective way to control and limit the use of these bombs then we will find it.T In Flint, Mich., former New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey, said Tuesday night whole free world could be crus'hed" if the Stevenson proposals are followed. The President started today a three-day campaign for the three Paciifc Coast state's 47 electoral votes and three Senate seats. Mr. Eisenhower speaks tonight in Seattle on what his aides called a "national theme.” But the address w’ill only be carried oyer (Continued on Page Five)

Four More Entries For Queen Contest Judges Announced For Soybean Queen Four additional candidates for the 1956 Adams county soybean festival queen were announced today by Joe Kaehr, chairman of soybean queen contest, which will be held in conjunction with the eighth annual rural-urban fish fry at the Decatur high school Thursday, October 25. The new entries are: Sarah Brunnegraff, 17, of 703 Elm street, Decatur, who will give a reading; Sharon Colleen Gray, 17. 903 North Fifth street, Decatur, who will give a reading; Judith Ann Miller, 16, Decatur route five, who will do sketching; Sue Petrie, 17,’ 222 South First street, Decatur, who will play the piano. Judges for the contest, all of Fort Wayne, were also announced today by Kaehr. The chairman of the judging team will be Charles Gaunt, a member of the Fort Wayne Junior Chamber of Commerce. Miss Mary Jane McNulty, who is Miss Indiana for 1956; Pat Mesing, head model for Wolf & Dessauer, and Jack Gray, newscaster for station WKJG-TV. Clarence Ziner, general chairman for the fish fry, announced today that increased ticket sales had made it necessary to order 50 extra pounds of fish for the eveflt, which is expected to be a sell-out. Ziner also announced he has appointed Tom Lutes and Bob Holthouse as co-chairmen of the decorating committee for the stage. Next Tuesday at 12:30 o'clock Ziner and Leo Seltenrigßt, Adams agricultural agent, will be interviewed on the Jack Gray WKJG television program on the three day soybean festival. Saturday, October 20. is the last day for entries to tile their names in ■ the soybean queen contest at the Decatur Chamber of Commerce office. Each girl is being contacted by the C. of C. and a special meeting previous -to the event will be held to explain the details of contest, j > '

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Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, October 17, 1956

Republican Economic Policies Attacked In Address Bv Stevenson

Britain Puts Atomic Power t Plant In Use Queen Elizabeth Pulls Switch To Free Electricity CALDER HALL, England (UP) — Quenn Elizabeth II pulled a switch today that sent electricity coursing throughout Britain from the world’s first full-sized atomic plant. The ceremony unleashed a force of 132,000. volts into nationwide transmission lines from nuclearpowered generators that eventually will product almost 100.000 kilowatts. A few dozen tons of uranium per year began doing the work of 56 tons of coal an hour at the pioneer Calder Hall electricity plant of the British atomic energy authority. Calder Hall supplies towns and cities from two atomic piles which act as “furnaces” to produce steam and drive four steam turbines of ’ the same sort as any modern coni ventional power plant. Though atomic power has be . come a positive building force rath- ■ er than of destruction, the r sword lives next to the plowshare' - at Calder Hall. A quarter of a mile away Britain’s Wind Scale atomic weapons plant turns the "ashes” of Calder Hall into atomic bombs. -- On a chill fall morning when there is no wind, a realistic miniature of an atomic cloud —but this time of steam —hovers over the giant barrel-like cr>ndww«r« which convert the used steam from the plant back into water. Today was the formal opening of Calder Hall, although its first reactor had been carrying on the atomic chain reaction for several months. Power from one turbine has actually kept the Wind Scale plant In operation. Today the Queen cut the British state operated high tension network into the plant and 10,000 (Conunuea on Page Seven) Tax Rales Approved By Indiana Board Auditor Receives Official Notice County auditor Frank Kitson, today received official notice from the Indiana state board of tax commissioners that the full schedule of tax rates for Adams county as set at the hearing conducted here Oct. 2 has been approved. The hearing was conducted by George Gable, a representative of the tax board. Several cuts lb proposed rates were made during the hearing and the tax levies for 1 1957 were then submitted to the full board in Indianapolis. The approval confirms the De-catur-Washington levy of $5.08 and Decatur-Root's rate at $5.12, ' considerable reductions from the 1956 levies of $5.26 for Decatur- 1 Washington and $5.28 for DecaturRoot. Other tax levies approved by the state board and now the pffi- 1 cial 1957 rates include Blue Creek. 1 $2.68; French. $3.52; Hartford. $3.00; Jefferson, $3.00; Kirkland, ’ $3.46; Monroe. $3.44; Preble, 1 $2.26; Root, $3.02; ?t. Mary’s, $3.06; Union, $2.50; Wabash, | $3.96; Washington, $3.58; Berne. , $5.04; Monroe-Monroe, $4.33; Mon- I roe-Washington, $4.42, and Geneva. $4.86. I . ’ Czechs, Poles Turn r < Down Election Bid ‘ WASHINGTON (UP) —Czechoslovak!’ and Poland have turned s down invitations to send observers i to this country to witness next j month’s election, the sate de- 1 partmet announced Tuesday. t

Spiritual Emphasis Workers Are Listed Annual Services To Open Sunday Night „ Further details for the annual Spiritual Emphasis week services, jvhich will open at the First Meth‘idist church Sunday evening at 7:30 o'clock, were announced to<?ay. Servicer will be held each evening at 7:30 o'clock, except Saturday, with the concluding meeting Sunday, Oct. 28. The annual services are sponsored by the Associated Churches of Decatur. Presiding ministers, assisting pastors, ushers and special music for the week are as follows: Sunday — The host pastor, thp Rev. Virgil W’. Sexton, will preside, assisted by the Rev. Stuart Brightwell, who will read the scripture, and the Rev. William C. Feller, who will offer prayer. Ushers will be provided by the Missionary church. Church of the Nazarene and the Church of God. A combined choir from the Methodist and Trinity Evangelical United Brethren churches will sing. Monday — The Rev. John Cham}bers. Trinity Evangelical United Brethren chureh, will preside, assisted by the Revs. Lawrence Norris and C. E. Lykins. The Presbyterian church will provide, ushers Imd the DeCatur high setfool chorus will sing. Tuesday— The Rev. Ray J. Walther, First Presbyterian church, will preside, assisted by the Revs. Traverse Chandler and W. H. Kirkpatrick. Trinity church will provide the ushers and the Zion Evangelical and Reformed church choir will sing. Wednesday — The Rev. Paul (Continued on Page Seven) No Rest For Weary Decatur Firemen Citizens Are Again Warned On Fires A total of 15 leaf fires all over the city kept a tired crew of Decatur firemen busy last night in Decatur. After working most of the previous night with the SIOO,000 warehouse fire, members of the department found little time for relaxing. Local residents, apparently ignoring the appeal of fire chief Cedric Fisher to refrain from burning leaves, continued to set fire to piles of leaves in front of their homes and the fire truck was sent out around the city to extinguish the fires. Fisher today issued another warning about the danger of burning leaves. He repeated that the dry spell has caused an extreme fire hazard in the city of Decatur and that a small leaf fire could quickly spread out of control, causing major damage. City street department crews are working as quickly as possible to collect piles of leaves whMf line Decatur streets. In the meantime, local residents are urged to be cautious in disposing of matches and lighted cigarettes and to allow the city to dispose of the leaves. The request not to burn the leaves Will hold as long as the dry weather conditions continue. Until a good, hard rain alleviates the dryness, the fire hazard will exist. Local Lady's. Father Dies At Syracuse Funeral services for Hugh Causer, Syracuse, father of Mrs. Justin Bleeke of Decatur, who died Tuesday at his home in Syracuse will be held In that city Friday afternoon at 2 o’clock. “ Borii in Scotland, Causer had resided in Syracuse ever since com ing to the United States many years ago. He had suffered for the last two years from a heart condi tibn.

Ike Campaigns For Three Days On West Coast Speaks Tonight In Seattle; Plugs For Senate Candidates SEATTLE, Wash. (UP) — President Eisenhower today started three days Os on-the-scene campaigning for the Pacific Coast states’ 47 presidential electoral votes and three senate seats. He will make a speech here tonight on what his aides called “a national theme.” But it will be carried only over a . WashingtonOregon radio and television network. The speech will give Mr. Eisenhower an opportunity to get in plugs for Gov. Arthur B. Langlie of Washington and former interior secretary Douglas McKay in their uphill contests to unseat Democratic senators from Washington and Oregon. Langlie, who was keynoter at the ! recent Republican national convention which renominated Mr. Eisenhower, will introduce the Presi- ’ dent, McKay will introduce Mr. 1 Eisenhower when he speaks at 1 Portland, Ore.. Thursday night over a. nationwide American Broad- ’ casting Company television net- ’ work. Mr. Eisenhower then will go to California Friday to make a night speech at a rally In the Hollywood Bowl. California’s GOP Sen. Thomas Kuchel is in a tough race with Democratic candidate Richard Richards. Mr. Eisenhower planned to spend a quiet day here today working on the three speeches. He didn’t have any appointments scheduled. The President, accompanied by Mrs. Eisenhower, Tuesday launched his most extensive swing of the campaign. He flew from Washington to Minnesota and then to Seattle. He made speeches in St. Paul and Minneapolis and received cheers of large crowds as be motored in an open car through the Twin Cities. The Eisenhower forces expres(Cantlauea on Page Six) Otis E. Martin Dies Early This Morning Funeral Services Friday Afternoon Otis E. Martin, 21. of 927 North Tenth street, died at 1 o'clock this morning at the Adams county memorial hospital following a year's illness of complications. His condition had been serious for the past 10 days. He was born in Adams county Aug. 25, 1935, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Martin, and was never married. He was employed as a laborer prior to becoming 111.Mr. Martin was a member of the Missionary church. Surviving are his mother, with whom he resided; two brothers, Howard Martin of Decatur and Ervin Martin of Bluffton, and a sister, Mrs. Gale Bauserman of Decatur. One sister and his father preceded him in death. Funeral services v?ill be conducted at 1:30 p.m. Friday at the Gillig & Doan funeral home and at 2 p.m. at the Missionary church, the Rev. Gerald Gerig officiating. Burial will be in the MRE cemetery at Berne. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o’clock this evening until time of the services. INDIANA WEATHE& •Fair and not much change In temperatures tonight and Thursday. Low tonight 45-55. High Thursday 80-85. Sunset 6:03 p. tn., sunrise Thursday 6:58 a. m.

Here Saturday li|B * X ’■ Mrs. Virginia Caylor, Indianapolis, candidate for reelection as reporter of the Indiana supreme and appellate courts, will be the principal speaker at a meeting at Republican headquarters, 254 North Second street, Saturday night at 8:15 o'clock. Harry Essex, Adams county GOP chairman, will introduce Mrs. Caylor and other candidates. Following the address,’ a social get-together, with refreshments, will be held.

Ordinance Adopted By City Councilmen Approve Transfer Os Funds Tuesday An ordinance approving tht . transfer of funds and an addition al appropriation, was adopted at , the regular meeting of the city council Tuesday night and a reso lution approving the transfer of another sum was also approved. The ordinance permits the tran sfer of S3OO from services coB tractual to regular labor and $75 from services contractual to current charges in the park department; S3OO from services contractual to materials for city hall; $l5O from building inspector to electric and plumbing inspector in the engineering department, and SIOO from services contractual to supplies in the office of city Judge. It also approves the additional appropriation of SSOO for services personal volunteer firemen in the city fire department. The ordinance is now subject to the approval of the state tax board. The resolution authorizes the city clerk treasurer to transfer the sum of S2OO from the parking meter fund to the police department for the purpose of providing a clothing allowance for the new police officer. The council also approved an agreement between the city and Carl W. and Mary Baker for a rural power line extension. A petition for a rural line extension filed by Noah R. and Amanda Steury of Oakridge place was referred to the city light and power department in conjunction with the superintendent. Phil Sauer appeared before the council with two recommendations. He first suggested that the fine for overtime parking in Decatur be reduced and that arrangements for easier payment be made. He pointed out that the fine is much lower in other towns and that these towns provide envelopes and boxes for the fines at intervals along the street. Mayor Robert Cole stated that a Study is already in progress and that a new schedule of overtime parking fines will probably be announced in the near future. * , The other suggestion made by Sauer Tuesday night was that left turns be eliminated at the corner of Monroe and Second streets except for the turn on U. S. highway 33. He pointed out that on Saturday nights and other heavy traffic times, left turns at this corner cause traffic snarls. This matter was referred to police chief James Borders who pointed, out that the matter would probably come under the control of the state highway department. Bernard Clark, head of the city street and sewer department, announced that a water pump would be installed in the near future at the city dump. The depart(Centlnued on Page Five)

Discrimination Favoring Big Business Hit Farmer, Consumer And Small Business In GOP Nutcracker ENROUTE WITH STEVENSON (UP) — Adlai.E. Stevenson campaigned through Michigan today with new criticism of Vice Presik dent Richard M. Nixon arid an at- '■ tack on Eisenhower economic pol--1 icies which he said have the farm- '' er. consumer and small business in j "the nutcracker.” t The Democratic presidential can- . didate, in a train whistle-stop tour 1 in southern Michigan, started out r in Niles with a new Jab at Nixon -for advocating, then “retreating,” i from a four-day work week. At Lansing he leveled a full ' dress attack on GOP economic policies, saying the Eisenhower administration discriminated deliberately in favor of giant corporations and to the detriment of small businesses which were being “swallowed up” at an unhealthy:rate. In Kalamazoo; the Democratic presidential candidate, before an audience estimated by police at more than 2,000 chided Nixon for e his four-day work week suggestion. »• He said Nixon recommended the lt shortened work week on a Satnry day and “took it back on Tues- > day.” •' ls “From this I must conclude that the Republican flirtation with the ** four-day week lasted only four days,” he said. —T 3 Stevenson used his Battle Creek « r " stop as the occasion for a new attack on GOP farm policies, recalling that President Eisenhower ’ in 1952 had “stolen the Democratic 0 (farm plank) platform in broad J daylight.” He noted that the President J Tuesday in Minneapolis and St. ’ Paul accused the Democrats of “not ’ talking straight” to the farmers } whereas the Republicans had _ “brought the farmer over the' humps.” “I wonderif he meant bumps’” , Stevenson luused. At Kalamazoo school authorities refused to let children and ' the city school board would not permit the high school band to play for Stevenson. It said such permission would be granted only , in case of “atj incumbent President.” * Stevenson |a!4 Jie hoped that the next time he visited Kalamazoo, he would qualify, Stevenson, starting a four-day train and plane stump tour of Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky and In- , diana, assailed the “tight money” policy of the administration, saying it was “good news on wall street but bad news on main street." The Democratic presidential candidate started speaking early this morning from the rear platform of his special train at Niles, Mich., where he was introduced by the state’s Democratic governor, G. Mennen Williams, who is running for re-election. Then came Kalamazoo, Battle Creek and a speech at Lansing, the state capital, devoted largely to the effects of Eisenhower do(Contlnuea on r*g« six) District PTA Head In Decatur Thursday Mrs. Hobart Wiley, of Huntington. president of district 4-B of parent-teachers association, will speak on “What is your PTA” at the meeting of the Lincoln PTA at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the Lincoln school auditorium. Mrs. Wiley will discuss past history of the national PTA, why it was formed, what it has been doing and what the local PTA can do in Decatur. The Northwest schol PTA is invited to attend. The PTA’a annual open house will be held in November. ■

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