Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 307, Decatur, Adams County, 31 December 1956 — Page 1

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Ike Calls In GOP Leaders Os Congress Presents Preview Os Legislative Plans To Be Given Congress WASHINGTON (UP)-President Eisenhower called Republican congressional leaders to the White House today to give them a preview of the legislative program he will submit to the 85th Congress. For eight hours, Mr. Eisenhower, Vice President Richard M. Nix- ’ oh, various members of the cabinet and Budget Director Percival Brundage will outline the admin- ’ istration program for the eight GOP House and Senate leaders and discuss strategy for its enactment. The new Congress convenes on Thursday — with the Democrats again in command as they were during the past two years. — Domestic Program Emphasized —_ The emphasis at the WhJ t e House meeting was on the administration’s domestic program. But there was almost certain to be discussion, too, of foreign policy, particularly the new “Eisenhower Doctrine” for protection of the Middle East against Communism. There will be more detailed consideration of that Tuesday, however, when the President meets again with congressional leaders—this time Democratic as well as Republican. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, who was in New York today conferring With United Nations Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold, will be on hand for Tuesday’s session. Indications were that the President will have to do a major selling job to win support of the t Democratic leaders for his plan to throw’ a protective shield of American military and economic might around the oil-rich Middle East. Sens. Hubert H. Humphrey (Minn), Mike Mansfield (Mont) and J. William Fulbright (Ark), all Democratic members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, complained that the administration “leaked” the new Middle East policy to the press before briefing Democratic, leadefs. President Returns Home High government sources gave reporters a broad outline of the plan while the President was in Augusta, Ga., for a week end of golfing. Mr. Eisenhower flew back to Washington from Augusta late Sunday afternodh. The three Democratic senators pledged a “microscopic” study, hot only of the "Eisenhower Doctrine” but also of the administration’s Middle East policies for the past several years. The "Eisenhower Doctrine" is expected to include” two main points: A blunt warning to Russia (Continued oh x-age Fivej To Begin Collection Os Christmas Trees In City Wednesday Bernard Clark, city street commissioner, announced today plans for the collection of Christmas trees being disposed of by Dedetur residents. He stated that the collection would begin Wednesday. Clark asked that all residents Who wish to take advantage of the city’s tree-collecting service have their trees placed on their lots —” along alleys. City crews will cover the city to pick up the trees, whichjyill be taken to the city dump to be burned. He pointed out that the dry trees are highly inflammable and «4hat it would be advantageous to < local persons to allow the city crews to dispose of them.

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Flood Threats Now Plague California Major Brush Fires Now Under Control MALIBU, Calif. (UP) — A serious flood threat from mountains denuded of brush faced southern California today in the wake of a scourge of 10 devastating fires that swept over 45,000 acre# since Christmas. Firefiglr.ers Sunday brought under control the last four fires in the unusual series of outbreaks, which claimed one life, destroyed 67 homes and inflicted more than 60 million dollars in property and watershed damage. But the fires posed another threat. Authorities feared serious floods would result from approaching winter rains which could send torrents of runoff water cascading down denuded mountain slopes into Inhabited areas. Such floods could prove as destructive or worse than the fire plague itself. In the past, flood waters sh fireravaged areas have caused severe damage. President Eisenhower declared the fire areas a “disaster area” Saturday. The weather helped firefighters beat down the last flames of the fires that were among the worst in, southern California history. The fire rash itself was- pjobably the most devastating mountain fire series on record in soutisrfn CaliAir moisture put a damper on the last stubborn flames Sunday and winds which had whipped the flames with gusts up to 70 miles an hour last week had died down. “It looks like the threat of any more fires is over for the present at least,” a- Weather Bureau spokesman said. Two Persons Killed As Bus Hits Truck 28 Others Injured In Wyoming Crash ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo. W) — Investigators attempted to determine what caused a Greyhound bus to crash into the rear of a truck Sunday, killing 2 persons and injuring 28 others. All but 11 of the injured had been released from Memorial Hospital by early today, but 4 of those still hospitalized were reported in critical condition. The two killed in the accident were tentatively identified as Mrs. William E. Tonar, about 40, of Denver, and Gail Demos, 9, of Cheyenne, Wyo. John B. Collins; 42, of Columbus, Neb., driver of the truck which was loaded with soybeans, escaped injury, as did the bus driver. Burton F. Howard Jr., 31, of Cheyenne. The state highway patrol said the _bus, en route from Omaha, Neb., to Salt Lake City, Utah, and the truck plunged off the road after the collision. The truck turned over but the bus stayed upright. Nine-Ton Order Os Salk Vaccine Shipped INDIANAPOLIS (IP) — A nineton order of Salk vaccine, enough for two milion doses, was started toward Buenos Aires today by Pitman-Moore Co. The Indianapolis pharmaceutical firm said the first plane load of vaccine was flown to Idlewild Airport in New York for transfer to Argentine Airlines. Pitman Moore spokesmen said the vacciue is being rushed to the Ministry of Public Health in time for free immunization of all children up to 12 years of age before the peak of the polio season which

Okay Purchase Os Industrial Site In City ‘ Purchase 35 Acres Os Property, Option On Balance Os Site After donors voted 68 to two in favor of the proposition, the financial committee of the Greater Decatur fund approved the purchase of the rear approximately 35 acres of the Scheiman property Saturday noon and made a down payment pf an additional $10,600 to initiate the purchase. - Reports were asked from the 112 firms and persons who have already donated and 70 replies were received before the deadline granted by the sellers. An immediate drive is anticipated to complete the financial drive, which had to be delayed because of Christmas business in which most of the committee members were Involved. The committee lacks three or four thousand dollars of sufficient funds J to complete the purchase of the first phase of the purchase of the industrial ground. However no particular problems are anticipated in the collection. An announcement was made by the committee today to those persons who wished, for tax purposes, to split their pledges between 1956 and 1957, to mail their checks dated today. A meeting ot the financial committee is scheduled this week to prepare plans for the last part of the drive to purchase the approximately 35 acres. According to the terms of the contract signed Saturday, a survey of the area will be made in the next several days to establish lines, which will divide the vacant area from that on which improvements are located. This survey will be used to provide the description for the first deed. Also as a part of die purchase price of $26,500 for industrial site, a five year option was included for the purchase of the front portion at no change in the original total price. It is hoped that,the drive can be continued so that the entire tract wilf be purchased, but the committee pointe<l z out that this arrangement gives it effective control in offering the entire site to proposed new industry. It was also stated that the ground will be offered to any local (Continued on Page Five) Saarlanders Mark Return To Germany Jubilant Residents Parade In Villages SAARBRUECKEN, Saar (UP)— Jubilant Saarlanders staged village parades today to celebrate their return to the West German republic after 11% years of French control. The tiny territory, caught for 40 years in a tug -of - war between Germany and France, becomes a, political part of Germany at one minute after midnight. But already some of the 970,000 Saarlanders were jumping the gun to greet the occasion. They began their New Year’s Eve celebration this morning. < The calm transfer of the 900-square-mile coal and stefel area will be in sharp contrast‘’to the stormy days of 1935 when Adolf Hitler grabbed'the-Saar after a plebiscite in which a 90 per cent vote was cast for reunion with Germany. The new treaty whereby France agreed to give up the Saar was . signed on Oct. 27. It removed a major source of trouble between the two neighboring nations. The 970,000 inhabitants of the Saar are almost unanimously Germanspeaking and their ties are with Germany. It-will become the tenth state of the German federal republic and will be represented in both houses of the Bonn Parliament. It will vote in the forthcoming. national elections in September. But until Jan. 1, 1960, the territory still will use French money and will have the strange situation of French customs erfficers inspecting and taxing (Arman goods moving into one of (Irmany’s own states. \ INDIANA WEATHER ' Partly cloudy south, mostly cloudy north, colder tonight andTuesday. Snow flurries extreme north portion .tonight and near Lake Michigan Tuesday. Low tonight 15-20 extreme north to upper 20s extreme south. High Tuesday upper 20s extreme north to low 30s extreme south. Sunset 5:30 p.m., sunrise Tuesday 8:00 a.m.

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Holiday Death Toll Is Below i Previous Week l Running About Half Os Rate Os Recent Christmas Holiday By UNITED PRESS Traffic deaths for the New Year’s holiday period today were running at about half the rate of, the recent Christmas holiday, which set an all-time record. A United Press count at 11:30 a.m. CST showed 231 persons dead in traffic accidents since 6 p. m. Friday. Another 25 died in fires, 1 lost their lives in plane crashes, and 49 were killed in miscellaneous mishaps for an overall holiday toll of 309. Texas led the nation with 25 traffic deaths. California had 20, Pennsylvania 18, Michigan 13 and Ohio 10. Ned H.‘ Dearborn, president of the National Safety Council, said the total was running "wall below” the council’* pre-holiday estimate of 490 deaths. He Said it also was running below last year’s New Year’s toll. “But the worst part of the tong holiday « ahead of us —JR Year’s Eve,” he’ said, “We urge everyone to double his caution. And above all—don’t drive if you drink. The best way to celebrate 1957 is alive." Despite the steady rise in the number of traffic deaths, the National Safety Council withdrew an. earlier prediction that the death toll might set a four-day holiday safety record. Ned H. Dearborn, council president, said he remained hopeful that the nation’s drivers would continue to show increased caution and hold the death toll below the council’s original prediction of 490 deaths. Record Set In 1952-53 The record New Year’s death toll for a four-day period was set in 1952-53 when 417 persons met death. This year’s prediction was 83 higher than that mark. During the three-day holiday last year 364 persons died in traffic mishaps. Continued on Page Five Negroes Pledge To Keep Up Bus Fight 400 Pledge To Ride In White Sections TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (ffl — Almost 400 Negroes have pledged to ride today in “white sections” of Tallahassee buses. “From all indications," the Rev. C. K. Steele told Negroes at a mass meeting where the pledges were given Sunday night, “nobody Is going to bother us as long as we are orderly and kind." Violence which came to Montgomery, Ala., over the weekend in the form of more gun blasts at buses and injupring one Negro woman rider, had no apparent immediate effect on integration there:, However, city officials ordered night runs discontinued until after Wednesday to discourage further shooting at buses as they roll through outlying Negro districts at night. Second bus was shot up in Birmingham, Ala., scene of a dormant integration campaign but these acts were traced to boyish pranks, police said. In other developments in Alabama: 1. Gov. James E. Folsom in a “New Year’s Message” Sunday night said “good order must and will be maintained” in the integration drives in his state “efficient - , well-trained state forces” are ready to intervene, he indicated. 2. Tuskegee Institute in its annual report on race relations in the South praised the "passive resistance” of Montgomery Negroes which won for them the South’s first court-ordered bus Integration.

Bomb Scare Spreads Nationally Today Manhunt Stepped Up For 'Mad Bomber' NEW YORK (UP) — A bomb ■care epidemic which has plagued New York for the past week appeared to be spreading nationally today. New York police stepped up their huge manhunt for the “mad bomber” who has planted 32 lethal calling cards since 1940. A bomb hoax forced the emergency landing in Kansas Sunday of three airborne continental airline planes en route to Denver. Other crank calls sent police on wild goose chases In Hartford, Conn., and South Orange, N. J. There was no rest for harried police and bomb squad detectives in the nation’s largest city. Last one pinpointing for the second time in four days the huge Paramount Theater in Times Square as a bomb target. The theater "scare" brought to 109 tha number of bomb threats made by phone since Christmas Eve when a device, ascribed to the mad bomby, was found in a telephone booth at the New York Public Library. During this period, 10 "bombs” have been found in public places, eight of them duds. Mock bombs were fouryi in telephone booths at Yaak«* Stadium and at an eievatpd station in the Bronx. Both the” Yankee Stadium device — a seven and half length of pipe — and the Bronx contraption—a pebble-filled flashlight case-r-quickly were proved to be duds. * Only a few of the nearly 75,000 spectators viewing the professional football championship game between the New York Giants and the Chicago Bears were aware of the commotion caused by the device at the stadium. Three Youths found Asphyxiated In Car Bodies Are Found Sunday In Garage YPSILANTI, Mich. <W — T h e bodies of three asphyxiated 16year old boys were found Sunday night in a car parked in the garage at one of the boy’s hopies. Dead were John E. Brown, Ypsilanti, and Donald Swarthout and Edward Bennett, both of Pickney. State police said the boys were reported missing by their parents Friday night. Their bodies were discovered by John’s father Sunday night when the father went to his garage to get his car. Police said the boys probably died Friday night or Saturday morning. They said the car in which the three were sitting had the ignition on and the gasoline tank was empty. They said Mr. Brown was abfe to give no reason for not noticing the car parked in the garage sooner. Montgomery City Bus Is Struck By Shot MONTGOMERY, Ala. (IB — A city bus was struck by gun fire early today. Police theorized the shot might have come from a passing car. Police said the bullet, apparently from a .38 caliber pistol, entered the bus just below the driver’s seat. * • • '**!<• Apparently,, no one was hurt. Fort Wayne Man Is Given Prison Term AUBURN, Ind.-(IB — Ralph Verrone, 46, Fort Wayne, was sentenced Saturday to 1 to 10 years in the state prison on his guilty plea to a fraudulent check charge. Authorities said Verrone admitted passing a SIOO check with no funds to back it up. They said he also admitted passing two other bogus checks for $25 each at Plymouth. , -.— ■: ' ■

UN Effort At Clearing Suez Stops Abruptly Incomplete Survey Os Obstructions In Canal Halts Effort LONDON «B United Nation efforts to clear the wreck-filled Suez Canal came to an abrupt halt today, almost before they started. The salvage operation which is expected to clear the canal for some shipping traffic by March ran into an unforeseen snag just a few hours after the all-out assault was, ordered this morning. It was found that there had been an incomplete survey made of obstructions in the stretch between El Cap and the Firdan bridge, just north of Ismailia. Earlier, the Cairo newspaper Al Akhbar suggested that Egypt refuse to open the Suez Canal for navigation until all Israeli troops withdraw behind the 1949 demarcation lies. The Israeli forces have wittidrawn some distance from the Suez Canal, but Jerusalem dispatches indicated the withdrawal would halt short of the armistice lines because of a new outbreak of Arab Fedayeen - commando raids. Al Akhbar, Which often reflects ’Egyptian government thinking, said Egypt permitted the U.N. salvage teams to begin work on clearing the canal because of its respect for the United Nations and because Egypt wishes to cause no dislocation of world economy. Israel meanwhile reported a news series of raids by the Fedayeen, of Arab suicide commando who dash across the border, commit sabotage or murder, and then fade back to their starting point. In other Mideast developments: Tehran — The Iranian Parliament voted final approval of a government bill to receive a $75 million loan from the world bank to finance development projects under-the nation’s seven-year Continued on Page Five Social Security Tax To Increase Tuesday Quarter Per Cent Boost Effective WASHINGTON (UP) - Social security taxes are going up Tuesday for more than 55 million jobholders and about 5 million employers. At the same time, the armed forces will begin deducting social security taxes for the first time from the pay of 2,800,000 servicemen. Congress earlier this year in separate actions: —raised payroll taxes, effective Jan. 1, to finance the new disability insurance benefit which it added to the social security program. About 9 out of 10 of the country’s 65,300,000 jobs are covered by social security and will be hit by the tax boost. —Brought servicemen permanently into the social security program as part of a program of providing broader military survivor and retirement benefits. / Starting Tuesday, the government will begin collecting from workers 2Vi per cent of the first $4,200 of annual earnings, or a maximum of $94.50 a year. The present rate is 2 per cent, or a maximum of SB4. Employers, who must match contributions of their employes, will also have to pay the higher rite. So will military personnel. An estimated 7 million selfemployed persons covered by the program will pay 3% per cent, or a maximum of $157.50 annually. They now pay 3 per cent, or a maximum of $126. The higher tax will cause a reduction in take-home pay for almost 50 million employes as soon as they receive their first paycbeck for January work. Military personnel will be hit at the same time.

Heads Masons Rs mihkk 'w 4 sot B fl '■ ■ Richard Richard Linn Heads Local Masonic Lodge Installationßites Held Here Saturday Richard Linn, well known Decatur business man, was installed as worshipfol master of the Masonic lodge, at formal installation ceremonies held Saturday night at the Masonic hall in this city. Other officers installed at the d! public ceremony were Ray Collins, senior warden; Raymond Eichenauer, junior warden; John R. Eichhorn, treasurer; Richard E. Maloney, secretary; Weldon Bumgerdher, trustee. Appointive officers who were also installed Saturday were Chalmer Barkley, senior deacon; Charles Houk, junior deacon; Thurman Drew, chaplain; Robert August, senior steward; Victor B. Porter, junior steward; Robert Workinger, tyler. ... Harold,. F. Mumma served as installing officer, assisted by Dr. Ray Stingely as marshal arid the Rev. William C. Feller as chaplain. Bob Ochsenrjder was organist and Jack Lawson soloist during the installation. Following the ceremonies, refreshments were served. Fifteen Youths Flee From East Flee To Berlin To Escape Reprisals BERLIN (UP) — Fifteen East German youths 17 and 18 years old—all the boys in a high school senior class—disclosed Sunday they had fled to West Berlin to escape* Communist reprisals for holding sympathy rallies with the Hunr 1 garian rebels. The students said the entire » senior class, themselves and five girls, were expelled before Christmas because they held two silent demonstrations to show their opposition to Soviet intervention in Hungary. The boys decided to come to Berlin together, but the five girls remained behind. In coming to Berlin they joined some 165,000 other East Germans who fled to the West in 1956, an increase of 12,000 over the number of refugees fleeing here In 1955. The students were at Torkow, I 35 miles from Berlin. They said ] the Soviet zone education minister, Fritz Lange, traveled to the school from East Berlin to lecture them on their activities and to try i to find the ringleader. A youth identified only as Horst . described the visit:* "At first he was nice. But when we refused to name a ringleader 1 he got furious. He Shouted and ranted. He said ’lf one of you < dares to get up and justify the < Hungarian counter-revolution I will ’ beat him to a pulp with my, bare ( ’• , . 1

Cl2l Military Air Transport Crashed Sunday Air Force Announces Transport Crashed, Burned On Landing mcguire air base, n.j. (upT““~ —The Air Force said today 11 persons were killed and 26 injured when a Cl2l military aia transport crashed and burned while attempting to land at Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, Sunday. „ An Air Force announcement said the 26 injured were in "good condition” at a Saudi Arabia hospital. There were 37 persons aboard the $1,900,000 Super-Constellation when it crashed at 3 p:m. one mile east of the U.S. air base in Dhahran. £ An Air Force team was to fly from the United States this after- — noon to investigate the crash. The four-motored plane carried about 54 persons when it left McGuire AFB at 4:10 p.tn. CST Dec. 28 for the journey to the Azores, Tripoli in Libya and Dhahran. The flight originated from Charleston, S.C., Air Force Base with a crew of 11. The craft discharged a numbet B *"‘ of passengers at the Azores before taking off again for Tripoli. * Earlier, a Military Air Transport Service (MATS) spokesman said the plane carried "military personnel and dependents—but more military than dependents.” The plane originally was believed to have carried 41 crewmen and passengers when it crashed a mile from its destination. The plane burned on impact. Air Force officials said it was "badly damaged." The names of the dead and injured were withheld pending notification of next of kin. It was not immediately determined how- many crewmen were among the dead. - The plane is believed to have started its landing approach when it crashed one mile east of the Dhahran runway. Uniled Stales And Brazil Sign Pad Trade Agreement Is Signed With Brazil WASHINGTON (IB — The United States entered into a trade agreement with Brazil today to finance the sale to that country of $138,700,000 worth of surplus farm commodities. The commodities will be paid for in Brazilian currency. The? Agreement was signed in the-office of Secretary of Agriculture Ezra T. Benson by Brazilian Ambassador Amaral Peixoto and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State ThorstefbV. Kalijarvi. This is the second largest agreemeat ever signed under the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954. The largest agreement was for the sale of $360,100,000 worth of surplus commodities to India. This agreement was announced last Aug. 29. The Brazilian agreement provides for the sale of $111,000,000 worth of wheat and/or wheat flour or about 66 - million bushels; $5,000,000 worth of. Lard'or about '33 million pounds; $1,500,000 worth of cottonseed or soybean oil, or about 11 million pounds; and $2,200,000 worth of various dairy products. Record Number Os Classrooms Built WASHINGTON (UP) — A record 62,600 new classrooms were built in 1956, but there is still a school room shortage, Marion B. Folsom said Sunday night. Folsom, secretary of health, education and welfare, said in a yearend statement , that the shortage "is still grave” and will “remain acute” unless "federal assistance is provided."

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