Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 14, Decatur, Adams County, 17 January 1957 — Page 1

Vol. LV. No. 14.

BROW-RAISING BUDGET fcO Mr\ ‘ ' <S®fc jf** tl'l ** - ,- sa ■MjjU <v-. I UtOrmHl B® L-■ . • B L*2**>£ ’*■ 4 <ai n-A ■ | -w I . H K-S>’S.l I ; ■» . * :-—••• ft -( i THE fl rw?® ij in • 1958 < -- |rj ail M t . ' Sha SENATOR HARRY F. BYRD (D) of Virginia, an old hand at finances. and chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, raises his eyebrows as he looks over a copy of President Eisenhower's budget for the new fiscal year. The brow-raising total is 72-bttlion dollars.

Economy Bent Solons Seek Budget Slash . Concede Tough Task To Reduce Record Peacetime Budget WASHINGTON (UP»—Economyminded congressmen promised today to try their utmost U> trim President Eisenhower's record peacetime spending budget of $71.8 billion. But they conceded it would be a tough task. No-due believri that the budget could be trimmed enough to justify a general tax cut and still keep the government operating in the black. ' Sen. Harry F. Byrd <D-Val, a leader of the economy bjec in the Senate, said. “My experience has been that it is very difficult to cut a president’s budget.” Speaker Sam Rayburn (D-Tex) agreed, particularly “in times like these” when the nation is prosperous. Foreign Aid Main Target Foreign aid funds will be the principal target of the economy advocates. Mr. Eisenhower proposed spending in the new fiscal year beginning July 1 14.3 billion on foreign military and economic aid, an increase of $250 million over this year. He requested $4.4 billion in appropriations, or new obligational authority, as against $3.7 approved by Congress for the current year. Sen. Richard B. Russell (D-Ga) said this request “ought to be drastically reduced.” Sen. Allen J. Ellender (D-La) proposed cutting it in half. Byrd questioned whether foreign aid has been benefiting this nation very much. Cites Britain, France “Britain and France have been the big recipients,” he told a reporter. “And they almost set off World War 111 without eventelling us in advance.” He was referring to the recent attack on Egypt. Sen. Styles Bridges (R-NH), ranking Republican on the Senate Appropriations Committee, said “the utmost of economy consistent with our free world obligations” should be exercised in approving foreign aid funds. « Treasury Secretary George M. Humphrey, the President's chief fiscal adviser, already has invited Congress to cut Mr. Eisenhower’s proposed budget wherever it can do so without impairing national security or essential government services. He said that invitation extends to funds for the armed services. Armed Forces Support What will work most strongly against an appreciable budget cut is powerful congressional support for giving Mr. Eisenhower what he wants for U.S. armed forces. Indeed, Congress may again allocate more money than the President has asked for the military. Congress last year added S9OO million to the President’s request for the Air Force. But the Budget’ Bureau only recently gave clearance for its expenditure. Mr. Eisenhower estimated military spending in fiscal 1958 at S3B bittion—the biggest item in the budget. He asked for $38.5 in new money, an increase of $2.1 billion over fiscal 1957. But although their expenditures will be increased, the Air Force and Army will be cut from 133 to 128 wings and from 19 to 17 divisions, respectively. The high cost of powerful new atomic-age weapons accounts for most of the increase in the defense budget.

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Payroll Increase Reported In City Employment Total Is Slightly Lower Industrial employment was down slightly in December as compared to the previous month but higher than the same month a year ago, according to the monthly busmess barometer compiled by the. Decatur Chamber of Commerce. The report snows that 1,524 persons were employed by industry during December. November’s total was 1,592, while a year ago it was 1,425. r In spite of the slight decrease, however, the payroll was up more than $25,000 over the previous month. The December payroll totalled $597,998 as compared to November’s $570,676 and the previous December’s $521,675. Slight increases are also seen in meters and telephones. The December, 1956, totals were 3,939 electric meters, 2,556 water meters, 2,352 gas meters and 6,099 telephones. More persons were aided in direct poor relief but at a lower cost. During December, there were 16 cases aiding 57 persons at a cost of $689. In the previous month, 11 cases Aiding 28 persons cost $1,173. Five deaths were reported by the city health board and 56 births ocurred during the month of December. This compares with 60 births and three deaths in November and 54 births and nine deaths in December of 1956 There was a sharp reduction in carloadings in and out from November and December, 1955. The latest month’s total, in and out, was 1,808. A month before the total was 2,301 and the previous year it was 2,343. Railway express shipments went up from 1,259 in November to 1,430 in December. Christmas business brought (Contlnned «■ Paa. Five) First Aid Class To Open Here Jan. 29 Advanced First Aid Planned In Decatur The course in advanced first aid, to be sponsored by the Adams county Red Cross chapter, will open Tuesday, Jan. 29, at 7 p.m. in room 307 of Decatur high school, it was announced today. The class will be conducted on each Tuesday evening for four weeks. Each class will meet from 7 to 10 p.m. Mrs. Roger Singleton and Dr. Joe Morris will be instruct tors for the course. Those eligible to take the advanced course are persons who have completed the standard course within the past three years. Any person who has attended the recent courses, taught by Mrs. Singleton, is qualified to enroll in the class. The course includes two extra hours which will be devoted to ra-dio-active fallout and burns. These two hours will complete the course. Any person who is interested in the advanced first aid and would like to attend the Tuesday night classes is to contact either Mrs, Singleton or Mrs. Wanda Oelberg, executive director of the local Red Cross. INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy with a few snow flurries mostly north portion tonight and Friday. Not quite so cold tonight and over south portion Friday. Low tonight aero to 8 above north, 8-15 south. High Friday 12-20 north, 20-25 south. Sunset 5.47 p. m.. sunrise Friday 8; 03 a. m.

Kiefer Admits Slaying Wife And Daughter Fort Wayne Man Surrenders Today To Double Slaying FORT WAYNE Iff) — Richard Kiefer, 36, Fort Wayne, walked into a police station early today and confessed the slayings of his wife and child, police said. Kiefer, sought in four states since he disappeared the day the deaths/ were discovered, blamed an argument with his wife over his spending habits. Kiefer signed’ a three-page statement which said he used a hammer to kill his wife. Pearl, 36, and one of his daughters, Dorothy, 5, in the basement of their home in Fort Wayne Tuesday morning. He said after the beating he went upstairs, got a knife and slashed the bodies. Kiefer said he drove to Chicago and registered under a fictitious name in a hotel, police said. He drank some liquor and went to a couple of shows, then bought a bus ticket home. Kiefer said an argument started the day of the slayings when his wife complained he spent too much money fishing and drinking, authorities said. The bodies were found by another daughter, Caroline, 14, late Tuesday. Kiefer was held on a murder charge pending a grand jury investigation. At Least 51 Deaths Blamed On Cold Wave Bitterest Weather Os Winter Plagues Eastern America By UNITED PRESS Winter’s bitterest weather maintained its devastating seige across the eastern half of the nation today, claiming an ever mounting toll of lives. In the East, residents from New England to the mid-Atlantic states dug out from the worst snowstorm of the winter. The storm Wednesday, borne on icy winds, dumped up to 8 inches of snow in Virginia and a foot or more in sections of New England. A below zero cold .wave gripped the nation's midlands overnight, but' weathemen promised a brief "warmup” was on its way from, of all places, Canada. Forecasters said cold ai r drained from Canada is being re> placed with warmer Pacific air that will boost temperatures from below zero into* the 20s in the Midwest. However, they warned a fresh onslaught of cold air is expected to invade the area by Friday. Heavy Death Toll A United Press count showed at least 51 deaths blamed on the weather since the start of the cold wave Monday. There were nine in Indiana, eight in New York, six in Illinois, three each in West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Virginia, North Carolina and Michigan, two in New England, two in lowa and one each in Mississippi and the District of Columbia. The snow storm snarled transportation in the populous East and authorities warned motorists that driving conditions remained “very miserable" today. Schools were closed in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., and in Dutchess County, N.Y. an estimated 20,000 commuters were delayed in getting to work in New York City. In north central New York state, jas service was restored Wednesday night to the last of eight communities which were left without heat during the area’s worst cold wave in history. The service had been shut off to more than 30,000 residents in the Oswego vicinity due to a gas valve break at Syracuse—— Explosion Kills Three An explosion in an engine room of the Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Co. at Liberal. Kan.. Wednesday night killed three persons and forced a cutback in gas service to industrial users in several mid western states. Two persons were killed and two others were missing in an explosion and fire in a two-story building at West Peoria, 111., Wednesday night. A $1 million fire at Springfield, Mass., raged out of control for two hours Wednesday and eight firemen were hospitalized for treatment of smoke inhalation. The biting cold continued to set (Continued on Page Eight)

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, January 17,1957

Two-Cent Gasoline Tax Increase Proposed In Bill To Legislature . ® J A,

AskU.N.To , I Order Israel ' Troops Leave Afro-Asian Lands Ask Withdrawal Be 7 Made In Five Days UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (UP)— , The Afro-Asian countries today j asked the United Nations General Assembly to give Israel five days to get its troops completely out of Egypt- ’ Ambassador R.S. Gunewardene of Ceylon, speaking for the 27 na- ' tion group, presented a mildly ' worded resolution noting “with re- ; gret and concern” Israel’s failure to comply with previous assembly i resolutions calling for the with- ; drawal of all forces behind the ■ 1949 Palestine armistice lines. The resolution was sponsored by , 25 of the 27 Afro-Asian nations—all but Egypt and Laos. , Egyptian Foreign Minister Mahmoud Fawzi, who had requested today’s assembly session on the Middle East crisis, said the world organization still was confronted with “a glaring case of aggression by Israel.” Israel has informed SecretaryGeneral Dag Hammarskjold that its withdrawal from the “Sinai Desert”—not necessarily the peninsula—will he ' completed'" by next Tuesday. But it said in its formal communication that it intends to hold a strip of Egyptian territory commanding the Gulf of Aqaba, which leads to the Israeli port of Elath, and the disputed Gaza Strip. Israel told Hammarskjold it is willing to negotiate the future of these areas. A dispatch from Jerusalem indicated Israel’s readiness to give up the .Gaza Strip. despite earlier statements from - government authorities that it would hold it. A highly placed Jerusalem source said Israel will insist that Israeli civilian police remain in the (Continued on Pnge Five) McGeath Is Renamed Director Os Center Committee Renames Youth Center Head O. M. McGeath, managing director of the Decatur Youth and Community Center since its opening in 1955, was reappointed to that position for another year bd the Decatur recreation committee at their regular monthly meeting held this week at the center. McGeath, who is a member of the national recreation associa- , tion, the American institute of park executives and the Indiana park and recreation association, has served during the past tw<j years on several state and national committees in connection wjUi i recreation and ic a member of the planning committee for the seventh annual governor’s conference on recreation. The program at the center has grown during the past year and a half to the point that it is gaining national recognition. Plans are underway for the expansion of the crafts program. A meeting will be held early in February for the organization cf an Adams county arts and crafts guild. It is hoped that classes in weaving, rug hooking and tray painting can be added to the pro- i gram this winter. Early in March, following the close of the basketball season, McGeath will conduct a leaders training class in camp leadership. The need for trained camp counselors is increasing each year and several carries have indicated an interest in selecting Decatur young people for their summer -camp Staffs. McGeath, who has had a number _ of years of camp experience, will serve as dean of the course, and experts from Fort Wayne, Purdue university and other schools will serve as instructors. Details of this course will be announced late in February.

iWI — Sam Rayburn Backs Eisenhower Request Middle East Flea Backed Jy Rayburn WASHINGTON (IPI — Speaker Sam Rayburn today threw his full support behind President Eisenhower's request for military and economic power to meet the Communist threat in the Middle East. . The Democratic leader told re-' porters he wanted to put a stop to “guessing on my position” on the Eisenhower Doctrine. He had previously been reported undecided or opposed to granting Mr. Eisenhower discretionary authority to spend an extra 200 million dollars in economic aid this year in the Middle East. He also had been reported as favoring giving Mr. Eisenhower a statement that Congress supports the President in his Middle East negotiations—in place of an actual grant of authority to U.S. military forces, if*necessary, to block overt Communist aggression in the area. “I think we have got to give the President this military authority about as he asked for it,” Rayburn said. He said ha meant a grant of legal power to use U. S. forces—not a statement of blanket congressional approval of administration -oreign policy in the Middle he also thought it would be "judicious for Congress to go along with the authority to use the economic aid” Mr. Eisenhower requested. He said both the military and economic authority should be contained in the same piece of legislation and not split into separate measures as some Democrats have proposed. Gen. Alfred M. Gruenther told the House Foreign Affairs Committee, that the President’s program is necessary to halt Russian ’ trouble-making” in the Middle East. Gruenther, recently retired commander of North Atlantic Treaty Forces in Europe, said unless Soviet?tactics are challenged the, United States and the whole free world will pay a cost “beyond measure.” Foreign Students Attend C.C. Dinner Indiana Technical Students To Attend An invitation was accepted todpy by 30 students of 30 different foreign countries to attend the annual Decatur Chamber of Commerce ladies night, to be held in Conjunction with the Rotary and J4ons clubs at the Decatur Youth fchd Community Center, Thursday night, January 31 at 6:30 o’clock. The students are all attending Indiana Technical College at Fort Wayne and will come in a group. Five of the students will talk on youth Opportunity in their own countries. . To make the occasion unusual, it is planned to have tables anranged with one foreign student at each. Persons attending the dinner may sit at a table with a youth who represents a country which interests them. William Hanum, an instructor at Indiana Technical College, will introduce the foreign students. _ The program, which will last approximately one hour, will also feature piano music and an audience participation show, presented by Dr. Theodore Hoelty-Nickel, dir rector of music and head of the music department of Valparaiso college. He is an internationally known musician. There will be no speakers. The tickets this year will be reduced to $2 and will be placed on sale Monday. Other details of the annual dinner are being made by Glenra Hill and M. J. Pryor, co-chairmen of. the event this year.

Orders Union Officials Aid Racket Probe Three Balky Union Officials Ordered To Assist Senate WASHINGTON (UP) — Senate investigators today ordered three balky union officials to cooperate in a congressional investigation of labor racketeering or take the consequences. Chairman John L. McClellan (D-Ark), summoning the trio for public testimony before his Senate investigating subcommittee, said he had advised the officials that continued refusal to cooperate might have a “very serious” aftermath. Although McClellan said he did not specify it, the statement held the threat of a congressional contempt action. The three union officials —two fsom the West Coast and one from New York City — rebuffed the committee Wednesday when it started its widely heralded inquiry behind closed doors. The opening day session also saw Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell give his blessing to an “objective” investigation of labor racketeering. McClellan said Mitchell did so in. testifying on the Labor Department's ma'dhtnery for dealing with false statements from unions and their officers. Spokesmen for the National Labor Relations Board and the Internal Revenue Bureau testified on the same subject. (Coatlaaed »■ Pace Five) Dr. H. Frohnapfel Dies Last Evening Heart Attack Fatal To Dr. Frohnapfel Dr. Henry Frohnapfel, 65, well known Decatur chiropractor, died suddently at 10 o’clock Wednesday night at his home, 104 South Third street, shortly after suffering a heart attack. He had not been ill and his death was unexpected. He was born in Fori Wayne April 26, 1891, a son of Charles and Anna Meyer-Frohnapfel and was married to Martha Freese Jan. 3, 1915. Dr. Frohnapfel began the practice of chiropractic in Fort Wayne in 1920, and moved to Decatur in 1921, where he had made his home and conducted his practice since that time. He was a member of the St. Paul Lutheran church at Fort Wayne. Surviving are his wife; one son, Eldred Frohnapfel of Blissfield, Mich.; three daughters, Miss Luella Frohnapfel of Toledo, Mrs. Dorothea Furlong of Fort Wayne, an Mrs. Evelyn Puckett of Lompoc, Calif.; four grandchildren, and one brother, George D. Frohnapfel of Clear Lake. The body, first taken to the Zwick funeral home, has been removed to the Rodenbeck funeral home in Fort Wayne, where friends may call. Services will be held at 2 p. m. Saturday at the funeral home, with burial in the Concordia Lutheran cemetery. Friends are requested to omit flowers. Funeral Rites Friday For Cauble Infant The infant daughter of Ralph W. and Catherine Bieberich-Cauble died at birth at 1:30 a.m. today at the Adams county memorial hospital.. Surviving in addition to the parents are two brothers, Gerald and Kenneth, at home; five sisters, Doris, Donna, Karen, Cathy and Iris, all at home, and the grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Otto D. Bieberich, of Kirkland township, and Mrs. Martie Cauble, of Coffeyville, Kan. Graveside services, conducted by the Zwick funeral home, will be held at 1 p.m. Friday at the Decatur cemetery, the Rev. Edgar P. Schmidt officiating.

1 Indiana Locked In ' Arctic Deepfreeze , Sub-Zero Weather Slated To Moderate ) By UNITED PRESS Indiana was locked in a deadly arctic deepfreeze today for the fifth day in a row, but Hoosiers were told the sub-zero weather is due to moderate shortly. The mercury shriveled far below zero this morning, including 10 below at Goshen, 9 below at ] Lafayette, 8 below at South Bend ! and a Jan. 17 record 6 below 1 at Indianapolis. Forecasters said, however, that today will be “not so cold,” the temperature will remain above zero tonight, and readings in the 20s will prevail at peak points Friday. • « There was no prospect, however, of above-freezing temper- ■ atures in the near future. There 1 haven’t been any since last week. The Hoosier death toll from the ' weather this week climbed to at least 10 when an Elwood woman ‘ died of injuries suffered when her 1 automobile skidded into a train’s ■ path on an ice-covered crossing. ; Previously two traffic deaths and ’ seven fire deaths were recorded. * The 6-below reading at Indian- ' apolis this morning broke an old 1 Jan. 17 cold record of 3 below ‘ set in 1916 and equaled in 1930. Wednesday was one of the coldest days in years, particularly in ' the state’s central section. The ihercury never exceed 7 above zero in Indianapolis the entire day and didn’t warm up to zero ’ until almost noon. < Other high marks Wednesday were 11 at South Bend and 15 1 at Evansville, the only area which 1 escaped sub-zero blasts this morn- < mercury never exceeded 7 above J Highs of 18 to 27 were due to- J day. Lows tonight will range from < 8 to 15. Highs Thursday will range from 20 to 25. And the out- * look for Saturday is continued 1 cold. ' Light snow was given a chance j of falling in the northern two- , thirds of the state Friday. I ! I " Three Men Dead In > Kansas Explosion Engine Room, Office 1 Os Panhandle Blasted j LIBERAL, Kan. (UP)—An explo- ' sion shattered a natural gas compressing plant of Panhandle East- . ern Pipe Line Cd. Wednesday , night, killing three workers and 1 injuring a score of others. Nine workmen were hospitalized, two of them in critical condition. Numerous other workers suffered ( Cat Industrial Use * Curtailment of industrial i use of gas in the Decatur area, to protect residential gas us- < era, is effective in Decatur to- 1 day, following the Liberal, 1 Kas., Panhandle explosion yes- • terday. This area, served by Northern Indiana Public Service Co., gets it natural gas 1 from Panhandle Eastern. M. ' ■ J. Pryor, Decatur manager of Northern Indiana, said the use 1 curtailment was in effect now ' and that he had no further information or instructions concerning further reductions. minor injuries that required only first aid. The blast knocked out one of the main plants in the firm’s vast 11state pipe line network. Authorities said the loss may amount to several million dollars. The explosion rocked a wide area and shook windows in Liberal, 13 miles away. Officials said a cylinder in a gasoline engine used in compressing gas ruptured, allowing gas to enter the engine Toom and setting off the 4>last The explosion caused a cutback in service by the company, which has markets in eight mid-conti-nent states. However, officials said none of the municipalities it serves would be affected. The dead men were identified as Melvin Swofford, 35; Ivan Hitt, 40, and Jim Haynes, 86, all ot the Liberal area. ~ '

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Would Boost Gasoline Tax By 50 Percent Would Boost State Gas Tax Effective Here Oit March 15 INDIANAPOLIS (UP)—A bill to increase the state gasoline tax by 50 per cent almost immediately as a means of creating more revenue to meet record expenses was introduced in the Indiana Legislature today. .L. Reps. Bobeft Webb of Arcadia and Howard Hetzler of Wabash, both Republicans, proposed a » cents-a-gallon increase of the present 4-cent state tax.' Its increase would become effective March 15. Governor Handley told the Leg* islature earlier this week a 2-cent increase would bring in about 30 million dollars more revenue per year. The extra money could be used to improve state highways and bridges and to provide funds to match federal highway program allocations to Indiana. A 2-cent additional gas tax would cost $lO a year extra for a motorist driving 10,00 miles and getting 20 miles to the gallon and raise his gasoline tax bill to S3O a year. Hetzler is chairman of the House Roads Committee. / f - Maybe Others Prepared? It was not known if other bills catting for « gas tax increase were being prepared for intro* duction. Handley did not suggest a specific increase when he ad: dressed the lawmakers Tuesday. But he did mention what revenue could be expected from either • 2-cent or 3-cent increase. The bill came in as lawmakers continued trying to chop the proposed 790 million dollar budget, a process that will go a long way toward deciding the tax bill for every Hoosier the next two years. The amount pared from the record 790 million dollar budget was still less than sloo,oo—only a drop in the bucket But the House Ways and Means “A” Committee and Senate Finance Committee continued an item-by-item review. • Meanwhile, the number of bills and resolutions introduced in the six-day-old 90th General Assembly was well over the 100 mark. By the end of the week, the firtt bill could be passed by one house and sent to the other. A top priority bill for Governor Handley’s administration forces was expected to be one to make the state budget committjee appointed by the governor and approved by the Legislature. Unless the law is changed the current committee appointed by former Gov. George Craig would remain in office two more years. It was the budget prepared by that committee that Handley called “fantastic” and said must be pared. A bill co-sponsored by Sens. D. Russell Bontrager (RElkhart) and Von Eichhorn (DUniondale) would permit Handley to install a new committee more in line with bls thinking. The bill was expected to be approved by Senate Judiciary “A” Committee. The budget-reviewing commit(C.atl»ed oa Paa. Fiv.) Osterman Boy Dies Today At Hospital Jon Mathew Osterman, infantson of Enos and Barbara SauerOsterman, 604 Grant Street, die% at 7:15 a m. today at the Adams county memorial hospital, where he was born at 3:50 a.m. The father is an employe of the Gas Co. o£fi ce Surviving in addition to the parents are a brother, Michael, at home; and the grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Reinhart Sauer. Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Friday at the Zwick funeral home, the Rev. Edgar P. Schmidt officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery- Friends may eatt nt the funeral home after 7 o’clock this evening.