Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 6, Decatur, Adams County, 8 January 1957 — Page 1

Vol. LV. No. 6.

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Hospital officials and contractors for the new addition to the Adams county memorial hospital witnessed the ground breaking ceremony performed Mdnday by Yost’s giant scoop shovel. Pictured above are, from left to right: Charles Jones, county council member; Fred Haugk, plumbing contractor; Leon Neuenschwander, county council member; Bob Yost, general contractor; Thurman Drew, hospital administrator; Miss Marie Felber, superintendent of nurses; Cal E. Peterson, president of the hospital board; Wilbert Nussbaum, hos- ■ Jital board member; Dee Fryback, hospital board secretary; Henry Rumple, hospital board member; Cal Yost, general contractor; and f E. Keller, construction superintendent for A. M. Strauss, architects. _ . - | ■— ; ■”•••>

Ike And G.O.P. leaders Agreed On legislation Mideast Resolution Heads Legislative Priority Measures WASHINGTON (UP)-President Eisenhower agreed with GOP con* gr&s|onel leaders today on a list of jkiority legislation for the new Congress. The list was headed by the new Mideast resolution and cohtinuation ot present corporation and excise 1 (sales) taxes. It included measures dealing wnh Hungarian refugees, school construction and civil rights. The agreement was reached at the- first regular meeting this year between the president and House and Senate Republican leaders. The GOP leaders conceded their priority list will have to be discussed with the Democratic leadership which controls Congress. But the Republicans felt there would be a measure of agreement between the two parties on items picked today for early action. Tax Rate Extension Current excise taxes on many items and higher corporate tax rates expire April 1. The President and his leaders agreed today there must be early action to extend these levies. House Republican Leader Joseph W. Martin Jr. said .the administration will seek an extension of one year in the tax rates. Extension of excise and corporate levies has been taken for granted as administration policy since the GOP leaders annnounced Doc. 31 Mr. Eisenhower's plans for fiscal 1858 anticipated no reduction in revenues. Th* excise taxes, applying primarily to liquor, cigarets and automobiles, yield about one billion dollars annually and the current corporate tax rates yield about two billion dollars. Senate GOP Leader William F. Knowland (Calif), announcing the _...„ priority list, said it was not all inclusive and did not lessen the importance of legislation to be pushed later. •>. Mideast Tops List Topping the priority list was the Midfeast resolution now being rushed through House committee hearings. Knowland said he expected the resolution to clear the Senate Foreign Relations Committee within two or three weeks. The rest of the list in the order announced by Knowland was: Extension of excise and corporate tax rates. t ' Extension of the refugee bill to clarify the status of Hungarian refugees admitted to this country on “parole” status. A possible change In corn legislation. School construction. (Continues on Pa<« Five)

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Profit For Year Shown By Hospital < By County Hospital For the first time in 35 years, the Adams county memorial hospital made an actual profit, Thurman Drew, hospital administrator, stated during a board meeting proceeding the ground breaking ceremonies Monday for the hospital’s new 3450,000 addition. 1 Drew’s annual report showed ‘ that the hospital made an actual 1 profit, of 31,677.1*. excluding the f tax money received rrom the couni ty, which amounted to *12,539.89. 1 In several past years the hospital 1 has operated in the black after the tax levy was included. The cash balance on hand January 1 1 was $36,376.92. The hospital board emphasized 1 that the tax levy had been reduced by two-thirds next year, from ! three cents to one cent. In addition to the profit shown, an electrocardiogram costing more than *I,OOO, was also purchased without using tax funds. Total cash receipts for the year • totalled *246,169.04, and *12,539.89 ; was received from tax distribut- ’ ion. Total income was $258,708.93. The payroll for 56 full-time and , 22 part-time employes amounted . to *164,058.38. Food, supplies and utilities amounted to $80,433.50. Totai expenses were *244,491.88. Cash balance one year ago was *22,158.87, about *14, W0 less than this year. Also started a year ago was the five-day week for employes, replacing the 5% day week. Employes are paid semimonthly, have six paid holidays a year, and 14 days sick leave. . Employes also receive one meal a . day while on duty and have a 15minute coffee break each morning. ‘ The first year of employment entitles a hospital worker to one week vacation with pay, and he re- ' selves two weeks with pay each ’ year thereafter. ■ There were 2,451 patients admit- ' ted to the hospital in 1956, and 2,068 outpatients were treated and released. Six sets of twins were ' included among 672 babies born 1 in the hospital last year. „ . Os these, 332 were boys, and 340 were girls. Deaths toatled 70 adults and 11 babies for the year. ' 13 Ships Sail Out Os Suez Canal Today ' CAIRO (W — Thirteen ships . strained in the Suez Canal since the Anglo-French invasion sailed . out into the Mediterranean today through Port Said, t , The ship, -which originally had , been headed south when the canal was blocked two months ago, were turned around by tugs and eased . past tiie canal obstructions between El Qantara and Port Said. The first ship out was the Norwegian tanker Eli Knudsen.

Sen. Knowland Will Retire From Senate Rousps Speculation On Presidency Bid a At *6O Convention I By JOHN A. GOLDSMITH i United Press Staff Correspondent , WASHINGTON (UP) — Senate ' Republican Leader William F. Knowland’s decision to retire from i the Senate prompted speculation . today that he will make a bid for , the pesidency in 1960. I The 48 - year -old Californian stunned his Senate colleagues and 1 caught California political leaders I by surprise in announcing Monday i that he will not seek reelection . when his current term expires, in . 1958. i Some senators quickly conclud- ■ ed that Knowland, a veteran of 11 years in the Senate, will try to ' win the California governorship in I 1958 and pse it' as a stepping stone ■ to the White House in 1960. Knowland had planned to seek I the Republican presidential nomi--1 nation last year before Mr. EisenI bower announced his intention to ■ seek a second term. After the President made known his inteni tions, Knowland withdrew. i The constitutional prohibition i against presidential third terms ' will prevent Mr. Eisenhower from ’ running again. Vice President Richard M. Nixi on, considered by many to be a front-runner for the 1960 GOP presidential nomination, issued a statement here praising Knowland for service “in the highest and ' best traditions of the United States > Senate.” “I know I reflect the sentiments i of his many friends in California and throughout the nation in expressing the hope that despite the ' decision he announced yesterday ‘ he will return to public service in ■ the future,” Nixon said. Puts In Bld 1 In California, State Controller Robert C. Kirkwood, a Republii can, said he would run for Knowt land's Senate seat in 1958, He said his political philosophy is "wholly in accord with the great Eisenhower movement.” Knowland, a conservative cm most issues, has sometimes been at odds, as Senate GOP leader, with the President's views. But Senate Republicans again picked 1 him as their leader for the new session of Congress which opened last week, and Knowland said he would retain the post until his retirement from the Senate. California Gov. Goodwin J. Knight, whose term expires at the same time as Knowland’s Senate term, exclaimed, “I must say I’m surprised” when informed ot Knowland’s decision. „ Knight said he expected to dis(CoßtißaM Paca Five)

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Near 200 Measures j Ready For Assemlito i Will Open Thursday INDIANAPOLIS. (UP)-The legislative mill that grinds out the laws Hoosiers live by was already in low gear today—two days before the opening of the 1957 Indir. ana General Assembly. The Legislative Bureau, which handles the mechanics of billwriting, said “close to 200” meast ures were ready for introduction B in the Assembly's 90th session. Two years ago, 1,016 bills and 1 resolutions were and 1 363 of them were passed or r adopted. In 1913, one of the “big” years; 1,351 were introduced and i more than 300 were okayed. 1 The lawmaking machinery acs tually never stopped when the 89th r Legislature adjourned in March, i 1955. Since then, several study i commissions have met periodically and prepared lengthy reports . on proposed legislation for considi eration by the new session. • z Record Budget Prepared ‘ Among these are the Legislative • Advisory Commission, the County Officers Salary Study Commission, c a tax study commission and toe ’ State Budget Committee. > The budget committee prepared , a record 790-miHion-dollar budget which Gov.-elect Harold Handley called “fantastic.” How much , "fat” can be trimmed from the ; budget may determine whether l Hoosiers will be faced with tax increases. Despite trimming, many obi servers felt a 2-cent Increase in ’ the state gasoline tax was inevii table and a 25 per cent hike in the I gross income tax was likely. I The Senate Finance Committee i and the House Ways and Means ■ Committee were scheduled to bei gin meetings Wednesday—before i the session begins—on how to trim • the spending program. Handley > said he hoped by mid-session lawr makers would know if more taxes i would be necessary to finance the revised budget. Other top money issues were • proposals for withholding gross in- - come taxes from payrolls, aboli- - tion of the 15-cent state property • tax, increasing auto registration ; fees, and net income and sales t taxes. Lawmakers also were faced with i demands for school construction i money and tax relief for local , communities. Top labor issues t were a “right to work” law and I supplemental unemployment pay. r Three Projects Omitted I The budget as it stands now > makes no provision for three ■ projects Handley said he hoped would be okayed—a veterinary . school at Purdue University, a > teen-age penal institution and a : geology building at Indiana UnP i versity. f Legislators also may act—or decline to act—on a Nov. 6 time ref- ■ erendum. The 1955 Legislature (CoatlaaM Pag* Five)

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Seek To Recover SecrelDocuroenf Army Is Attempting To Reedver Copies WASHINGTON OR — The Army lx trying to recover copies of a document containing guided unauthorized hands in an apparent "violation of security regulations.” Army Secretory Wilbur M. 1 Brucker annexmeed an investigation of the leak Monday night and said a senior officer is being questioned “among others" concerning the matter.-, « He identified the officer as Colonel John C. Nickerson Jr., 41, chief of the field coordination branch. Army Ballistic Missile Agency. Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville. Ala. . . Brucker did not identify the leaked document other than to say it “apparently contained secret ini formation” about Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson’s Nov. 26 directive setting forth which guided missiles are to be under Air Force control and which under Army control. The document “was discovered in the hands of unauthorized persons,” Brucker said. He said the Army would not comment further while the investigation is in progress. It “is taking prompt steps to retrieve any copies of the document which msnr have been he said. jt ■ ■ u Nickerson, a Kerttncldha was graduated from West Point in 1938 aid holds a master of science degree in aeronautics from the Cali- ' foria Institute of Technology. He served in the research and ■ development division of Army Ord- ■ nance before going to Huntsville. His decorations include two Sfiver Stars, a Bronze Star and a Croix de Guerre with star. To Reconskier Loan For Geneva School Request Is Made By Office Os Governor INDIANAPOLIS «B — The Common School Fund Commission will meet Friday to reconsider construction loans for six Indiana school units which it turned down Dec. 21 because the fund .was down tq only $15,000 in available money. The request for the meeting came from the office of Governor Craig in the form of a letter. Craig, who leaves office three days after the meeting, was not available for comment. But State Treasurer John Peters said there was “no change” in the fund since that time and there was only $15,000 In money not tied up in long term Investments. State School Supt. Wilbur Young also said he knew of no change that would allow the loans to be made. i The six turned down had requested loans totaling $3,400,000. Craig also asked that the Cannel School Building Corp., Hamilton County, be given a hearing in its request for $1,200,000. The fund commission is authorized to buy bonds for school construction when the bonds fail to sell on the open market. An apparent solution to the problem would be to sell bonds currently held by the commission. But the matter was tabled pending an opinion by Atty. Gen. Edwin Steers after Peters said such action would be illegel. Steers said it would take “three to five” weeks before an opinion could be given on the matter. Earlier, some Southern Indiana school leaders had charged the loan denial was the result of an intra-party feud between Craig and the incoming administration of Gov. — elect Harald Handley. Requests include: Boonville—Boone Twp., Warrick Co., $1,150.00ft; Troy Twp., Perry Co., $225,000; Turkey Run District, Delaware Cd.. $480,000; Wabash Parke Co., $845,000; Monroe Twp., Twp., Adams Co., $325,000; and South Central Consolidated School Building Corp., Hartsan Co., $415,‘OOO.

■w——■■■■ in (J New Fighting In Mountains Os Hungary Hundreds Fleeing Info Mountains To Join Freedom Bands < VIENNA (UP) - Hundreds of Hungarian patriots .facing arrest and possibly death under the new Red reign of terror are fleeing into the trackless forests, swamps and mountains to join die - hard freedom - fighter bands, refugees said today. Hungarians who risked their lives to cross the Austrian frontier to escape the return to the "proletarian dictatorship” in their homeland also reported renewed fighting between partisan bands and Russian troops. Clashes between Hungarian patriots and Red army troops have increased in the past 24 hours, according to the newly-arrived refugees. They said tha heaviest fighting took place in the rugged country centered around Pecs. Pecs on the Yugoslav frontier was a rebel stronghold in the revolution crushed by Soviet steel. The pro-Russian regime of Janos Kadar announced Monday a I new purge of opponents The cleanup was expected.To hit memI bers of the Hungarian parliament as well as die-hard patriots. The Hungarian refugees said it was estimated some 10,000 Hungarian patriots are holding out against Soviet and Communist Hungarian forces in the outlying provinces. Rebel bands were said to be active in the Bakony Forest in western Hungary, the Matra Mountains in northeast Hungary, and in the swamp lands along the Hungarian-Yugoslav border. The refugees said the partisans would be able to hold out indefinitely in their almost - inaccessible strongholds. They said the freedom fighters are provided with food by peasants and farmers and obtain weapons and ammunition by raids of Red army supply columns. Okay Appointment Os Deputy Coroner . Commissioners Hold First 1957 Session County commissioners who met Monday for their first regular session ot 1957 at the court house, approved a request by county coroner Elmer Winteregg, Jr., that Rebort Zwlck be appointed deputy coroner. The commissioners also accepted a request for the repair of the Stauffer ditch in Monroe township and approved the county home December report filed by George Fosnaugh. The report showed an income for the month totalling $5,836.49, with 20 men and eight women residing at the home. The county surveyor was authorized to draw up plans and specifications for a new drag line for the county highway department. Advertising for bids will be issued later. A request from Several Root township residents for action on a petition for a blacktop road in that township, filpd in 1952, was received by tile commissioners. The matter was shelved until after the 1957 Indiana legislature determines whettier or not to approve the proposed two-cent increase in the gas tax. This increase would push the total gas tax for Indiana residents to six cents. It would mean additional' highway department income in Adams county ranging from $75,000 to SIOO,OOO. A letter was read from the Mercer county, 0., commissioners requesting a joint meeting to discuss an interstate ditch. The Adams county portion of the drain in question is the Alva Curless ditefi in Jefferson township. No date was set for the meeting.

New England Area Plagued By Snow Six-State Area Is Hard Hit By Storm By UNITED PRESS Snow flurries continued today in the six-state New England area, already buried undnr v g anew blanket ranging up fa nearly 18 inches. Driving in the area was reported “poor,” although armies >ot highway workers kept most roads open despite some drifting. The storm’s heaviest blow was aimed at Maine where an accumulation of nearly 18 inches was reported. The storm Monday also dumped 12 Inches northwest of Boston, 9 inches at Boston, and up to 8 Inches in central and western Massachusetts, Vermont and New Hampshire. Two Lawrence, Mass., women collapsed and died within 20 minutes of each other Monday while shoveling snow in separate sections of the city. v Lighter snow flurries also continued from lower Michigan to New England, with the heaviest accumulations ranging from 2 to 4 inches in northeast Ohio. Meanwhile, a frigid blast of Arctic air pushed out of western Montana into the northern plains, dropping temperatures by nearly 30 degrees. Overnight readings in the cold air mass hovered hear the zero mark. ■ w Another cooling trend surged t across Minnesota and the northern Great Lakes, causing temperature t drops of about 12 degrees. Cooler ■ weather also occurred in the Gulf t Coast states as a result of clear--11 ing skies. ! | General cloudiness in the south I and central plains caused a i warmup averaging about 15 dei grees in the area. Light showers i fell from southern California • through parts of New Mexico and into the central Rockies. Light ! showers also dampened the north- ■ west coast from northern California through Washington. Weathermen said warmer weather will spread northeastward today from Texas and Oklahoma through the Ohio Valley. Generally fair skies are seen for the southern and Midatlantic coast, but little change is expected elsewhere. Early morning readings included New York 34, Washington 34, Miami «1, New Orleans 52, Chicago 22, Denver 31, Los Angeles 53 and Seattle 37. • s • r— — Joint Banquet Held Here Monday Night Decatur Casting Co. Officials Speakers "The Decatur Casting company, started in 1920 to provide gray Iron castings tor the local General Electric company, has grown along with the city of Decatur, and hopes to continue to do so,” , Peter E. Rentschler, president of the Hamilton foundry and vicepresident of the local foundry, told an audience of 100 civic leaders at ■ a Chamber of Commerce-Rotary-Lions club joint banquet Monday i night at the Decatur Community Center. ’ During the dinner Rentschler and Peter R. Rentschler, secretary of the company, were presented with keys to the city by Mayor Robert Cole, and made honorary colonels in the Decatur police force by,; chief of police James Borders. * A total of $92 was collected for , the Adams county march of dimes ; which started last week, and the ; collection touched off the annual competition between the Lions and , Rotary to see who can collect the i most money for the campaign. Following a brief speech Rent- , schler introduced J. Donald Judge, company engineer, who showed a series of slides on castings, and explained the whole process. Casting is a semi-basic industry, he explained, and although it is a dirty job, like farming or mining, it Is creative, with the workers arriving in the morning with only sand and iron scrap, and leaving in the evening having produced (CraunuM on

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Charges Move To Tie Hands Os Committee Secret Testimony By Dulles Opposed j ? By Ohio Democrat WASHINGTON (UP)-A Demo, cratic member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee stalked out of a closed-door Middle East meeting with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles today charging that the administration was trying to “tie the committee’s hands” with confidential information. Rep. Wayne L. Hays (D-Ohio) jsald he left the session in protest against taking secretly testimony which he believed thfe American people are entitled to have about President Eisenhower's request for authority to send troops to the Middle East if necessary to keep Russia out. Hays said Committee Chairman Thomas S. Gordon (D-Ill) declined to recognize him to make a formal protest against taking Dulles’ testimony in secret. “So I just said what I tad to say anyway, and left,” Hays told reporters. Tops Priority List ? “I don’t believe Dulles ought to 1 aide behind closed ' questions. It’s a clear case of try- ! ing to tie the committee’s hands. , Even if you get the answers you can’t use them because the information was given in an executive session.” Hays’ walkout came as President Eisenhower urged Republican congressional leaders at a White House legislative conference to put his Middle East resolution at the top ot their priority list for early action. Senate Republican Leader William F. Knowland (Calif) said after the White House session he expects the Mideast resolution to clear the Senate Foreign Relations Committee within two or three weeks. There were mounting demands in Congress for putting some time I limit on the President’s request authority to use U.S. funds, and if necessary, troops in the Middle Bounds of Opposition While most congressional reaction to the "Eisenhower Doctrine” has been favorable, there were some rumbles of opposition. Rep. Noah M. Mason (R-Hl) said today he could not conscientiously vote to give the President military authority which Mason contended was given by the Constitution to Congress. “Congress has many of its constitutional powers to the chief executive during the past 20 years,” Mason said fa the congressional record. “It is time to call a halt to such actions- ’ In addition to a time limit on the authority to use U.S. armed forces, Knowland warned President Eisenhower Monday that the Democratic - controlled Congress probably will insist on divorcing the “fight-if-we-must” power from the proposed 400-mfllion-dollar mil-itary-economic aid aspects of the program. Gary's 1956 Traffic Toll Mounts To 30 GARY, Ind. (UP) — This city’s 30th traffic fatality of 1956 was 'recorded Monday with the report of the death over the weekend of Raymond Stradley, 31, Chicago Heights; Hl. Stradley died Sunday of injuries sustained fa a two-car crash fa ; Gary Dec. 13. Ed Day. 48, Palos Park, 111., also was killed fa the collision. INDIANA WEATHER Rata tonight changing to snow extreme north. Warmer south portion. Wednesday cloudy and colder with rata or anew north 3v BOrtn, MEI tnO 30* BOQVDL Wednesday 28-35 north, 35-48 south Sunset 5:38 p. m., sunrise Wednesday 8:88 a. m.