Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 15, Decatur, Adams County, 18 January 1957 — Page 1

Vol. LV No. 15.

45-STAR FLAG FOR INAUGURAL .j. ■ ’’^IBPB*-r» w **' K. G. KAVADIAS, bakery-restaurant operator in Washington, displays his 50-year-old, 45-star American flag, which will fly during inauguratioin parade at request of President Eisenhower.. Kavadias’ Greek father rescued the flag in a shipwreck. Later he gave the tattered, faded flag to the son, and it encouraged the son to come to America. The President said he "would be honored to have the flag ... in the inaugural parade.’’

No Letup Seen As Cold Wave Grips Nation "Records Continue To Fall And Death Toll Is Increasing ® By UNITED PRESS One of the nation’s worst cold waves showed no signs of relent- i ing today. Instead, icy winds brought fresh ; snow to scattered sections of the country and gusts up to 55 .miles per hour sent dust clouds swirling ui the plains. Buffalo, N.Y., was buried by a 7-inch snowfall during a two and one-half hour period Thursday night, boosting the total accumula- i tion there to 14 inches. \ 1 Records continued tofall aa t»6--« low tero readings gripped most of Pennsylvania, New York state, , New England, sections of the Great Lakes and upper Missis- , sippi Valley, the Northern Rockies and the Northern Plateau. A three below zero reading in Detroit Thursday shattered the previous record low reading for 1 that date of minus 2.4 set in 1893. ' Other Record Lows Temperatures plunged to an all- ' time record low of 12 below in Youngstown, Ohio, Thursday, and other records fdr the date were set ' in Cleveland and Pittsburgh, with 3 below, Parkersburg, W. Va., 9 below and Columbus, Ohio, 7 be- , low. The toll of lives and property damage in accidents directly attributed to the weather mounted steadily. , A United Press count since the frigid weather embraced most of * the nation Monday showed at least . 63 weather-caused deaths. There were 12 in Indiana, nine in Illinois, eight in New York, six each in North Carolina and Pennsylvania, four each in Michigan and Massachusetts, three each in West Virginia and Virginia, two in both lowa and Maine, two elsewhere in New England, and one each in Mississippi and the District of Columbia. Four children ranging in age from 8 months to 13 years were killed Thursday night when a fire destroyed their five room home at : Wareham, Mass. Their mother and i another child escaped the flames. | Two infant boys burned to death when a flash fire destroyed their ( home at Phippsburg, Me., Thursday night. « At Indianapolis, a workman loos- 1 ening frozen coal Thursday was ' killed when he was buried under i an avalanche of tons of fuel in a I 50-foot storage bin. A New Alexandria, Pa., mechan- < ic died of carbon monoxide poison- ; ing while working in a filling sta- ' tion garage on cars stalled by the cold. A motorist at Arnold, Pa., was found dead in his carbon mon- ] oxide-filled garage where he had < gone to start his-stalled car. Ice closed the Detroit River for : the second straight day, and for > the first time in many years, res- , idents of Walpole and Russejl Islands in St. Clair River could walk across‘the ice to the mainland. Rail Wreck In Chicago Five persons in Chicago were injured when an “el” train skidded on icy rails and rammed into a j terminal bumper. The cold air blasts penetrated as , far south as northern Florida and , below freezing temperatures were ( recorded in the Middle Gulf Coast ; region. Gusty winds in the P1 ai n s churned up blowing dust mixed j with snow. > Light-to moderate snowfalls also - hit the Great Lakes region and , southward into the Ohio and nudMississippi Valleys. Temperatures moderated some- ' what from the Great Lakes to J ' (Continued on Page Bight) i

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Temperature Near Zero In Indiana Gradual Warmup Is Forecast In State By UNITED PRESS Temperatures slipped near zero, and possibly below, again today as the winter’s worst cold wave kept its grip on Indiana amid prospects of a gradual warmup. It was 2 above at Lafayette, 5 above at Goshen and Fort Wayne. 6 above at Indianapolis, 9 at South Bend and 15 at Evansville as the mercury kept dropping even after dawn. Snow added more depth to a white blanket which has covered most of the state all week. One to two inches of new snow fell in squalls and flurries during the night, increasing Goshen’s covering to 10 inches. South Bend’s to 8, Fort Wayne’s to 4 and Indianapolis’ to 2. ~ The weather bureau’s five-day 'Outlook said temperatures will very gradually warm up by next Wednesday but the average for the period will be 10 to 15 degrees below normal highs of 30 to 45 and lows of 10 to 27. Little new snow was in prospect. Precipitation will total less than one-tenth of an inch the next five days, occurring as occasional periods of very light snow mostly after the weekend. High temperatures Thursday ranged from 12 at South Bend and Fort Wayne to 30 at Evansville. Highs today were expected to range from 15 to 26, lows tonight from 10 to 20, and highs Saturday from 18 to 30." The death of William Miles, 45, Indianapolis, late Thursday raised to at least 13 the number of fatalities blamed on the weather in Indiana this week. Miles was crushed beneath lumps pf coal, which dislodged suddenly after being frozen together. Robert Meyer Named New Deputy Sheriff Native Os Decatur Named By Affolder Robert Meyer, 29, a resident of Decatur, has been appointed by sheriff Merle Affolder to fill the post of deputy which was vacated with the resignation of Roger Singleton the first of the year. A native of Decatur and a resident here all of his life, except for the four years he served in the U.S. Air Force, Meyer will assume his duties as deputy sheriff Saturday. Meyer is the son of Arthur Meyer and the late Mrs. Beulah Meyer. He is a graduate of Decatur Catholic high school and was discharged a year ago from the air force. Since his discharge he has been employed at the Decatur General Electric company. He is married to the former Helen Geimer. He. and his family, which includes two children, reside on Mercer avenue.* Huntington Reports Latest Bomb Hoax HUNTINGTON, Ind. (UP) — A newspaper received a phone call Thursday night saying a bomb would go off 15 minutes later in a gymnasium where the Huntington County basketball tourney was being played. But police who hurried to the gym found no explosive and dubbed the call to the Huntington Her-ald-Press the work of a crank. The call came in at 9:30 p.m. When police arrived at the gym, scene of die second night session of the tourney, they found the games overand most spectators had left ' 'Ki.

Submit Bills For Inspection Os Vehicles Would Cost Hoosier Drivers More Thon $1 Million Yearly INDIANAPOLIS (UP) — Two bills calling for. safety inspections of motor vehicles, at a cost to Hoosier motorists of at least 81,200,000 a year and probably considerably more, were introduced in the Indiana Legislature today. Identical bills went into House and Senate, a few minutes apart—one introduced by Rep. Phillip Johnson. Mooresville Republican who is a leader in Hoosier traffic safety circles, the other by Sens. Charles Kellum, also a Mooresville Republican, and Eugene Bainbridge, Lake County Democrat. The bills called for semi-annual compulsory inspection of more than two million vehicles registered in Indiana. A 30-cent state fee for each inspection would go into the state motor vehicles fund, raising 81,200,000 or more a year. Would License Inspectors The bills provided for licensing operators of inspection stations for a 825 fee. They did not say how many stations should be establish- ■ ed. Nor did they specify where the i licensed operator would get a profI it to reward him for his work. However, Kellum said an in- ■ specter’s fee had not been decided on yet. The implication was an inspector could charge an addl- • tional fee above the 30-cent state charge, thus raising the total levy on motorists. Every car would be required to display a certificate of inspection [ after Sept. 1, 1957. Mechanical de- . flciencies turned up in the check . would have to be corrected within > five days of the inspection. The bills would appropriate 8800,i 000 to get the program in opera- • tion over a two-year period. Retiring Gov. George Craig tug* gested compulsory vehicle inspecl tion in his farewell message to ■ the Legislature last Friday. He advocated it often during his term ! as a means of reducing traffic 1 deaths and accidents. Plate-Tax Link Urged Meanwhile a move was afoot ‘ to force Hoosiers to pay property ' taxes on their automobiles at the ' same time they buy license plates. Freshman Rep. Fred S. Pletcher (R-Goshen) spid he had no idea (Continual on Page Bight) Civic Music Board Meets Here Sunday To Elect Officers, Plan For Campaign The 45 members of the board of directors of the Adams ciunty civic music association will meet Sunday at 2 p. m. at the Decatur Youth and Community Center for election of officers. A president, a secretary, a treasurer and several vice-presi-dents are to be elected to head the organization for the coming year. They will be chosen from among the board members, who were elected by balloting at, the Jan. 14 concert - . Also a feature of the meeting will be discussion of plans tor the annual membership campaign, which is scheduled for March. Preparation week vvill begin March 4 and the following week will feature the actual membership drive in Adams county. Robert E. Misenheimer, field representative of Civic Concert Service, Inc., with which the Adams county association is affiliated, will attend the meeting to assist in planning the campaign. The board includes Ernest Atkinson, Mrs. Frank Alton, Dr. Freeman. Burkhalter, W. Guy Brown, Mrs. Clyde Butler, Mrs. William Feller, Dan Foreman, Don Gerig, Mrs. Emma Goldner, Miss Helen Haubold, Miss Fan Hammell, Glenn V. Hill, Mrs. Arthur Holthouse, Ed Heimann, Walter Hinkle. The Rev. Olin Krehbiel, Mrs. Roy Kalver, Ralph Kem, Mrs. Walter Krick, H. H. Krueckeberg, the Rev. W. H. Kirkpatrick, Menno Lehman, Ed Liechty, Miss Marlene Laurent, O. M. McGeath, Mrs. J. Clark Mayclin, Joseph Morin, Lee Neuen, Mrs. Martin Neuenschwander, Mrs. Harriet Pollock. M. J. Pryor, Clint Reed, Mrs. Sherman Stucky, the Rev. Edgar Schmidt, Mrs. Fred Smith, Mrs. Dan Tyndall, Carl LuginbiH, Ramen Johnston, Mrs. Ed Eichenberger. Mrs. C. T. Habegger, Mrs. Albert Staley, Gorden M. Liechty, Leslie Lehman. Clyde Sprunger and Darrel Gerig.

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Slate Senate 1 ' 1.. „. Okays Bill To Help Schools Transfer Money From Korean Bonus Fund i tor School Loans INDIANAPOLIS (W — The In, diana Senate today amended a Korean bonus law extension bill to provide for immediate transfer of nearly five million dollars from the bonus fund to a school building construction fund. Senators passed by a vote of 45-1 a bill which went through the House Thursday with only one dissenting vote under suspension of rules to postpone indefinitely a transfer of the entire 15 million dollar surplus in the bonus fund to the Veterans Memorial School Building Construction Fund on Jan. 31. Sen. Ira Anderson, Uniontown Democrat, was the only dissenter in the Senate. The bill with its amendment now goes back to the House for concurrence, then, if that is given, to Governor Handley for his signature. The bill has an emergency clause which would make it effective immediately. - The amendment transfers 84,827,000 to the school fund. It was aimed at permitting 22 school units with applications pending to receive the money without a long wait until the bonus is fully paid. The amendment came as predicted earlier. Rep. Robert Webb (R-Arcadia), author of a bill which passed the House Thursday to eliminate the Jan. 31 date for transferring the bonus fund surplus to a school building fund, said the Senate probably will amend the bill to transfer some of the money to the school fund immediately. Webb and Sen. Roy Conrad (RMonticello), also an administration spokesman, said there was no intention of bottling up 2 or 3 million dollars which is expected to remain in the fund after bonuses are paid. The Webb bill as passed by the House left unanswered the question of a substitute date for reversion of the surplus to the veterans memorial building fund. Webb said it will take at least 14 months to pay off the bonus, and plans call for making the expected surplus available for schools earlier than that. Adams County Clerk Gives Annual Report Total Receipts For Year $86,761.74 Total receipts in the county clerk’s office for 1956 were 886,761.47, including cases filed, court costs, support money, hunting and fishing licenses, and other items of county and state funds paid through the clerk’s office, clerk Dick Lewton reported today. Seven criminal cases, 150 civil cases, and 89 probate cases were filed. Seven cases were venued to Adams county from adjoining counties, and 10 civil cases were venued from the county. Probated wills totalled 43. There were 21 adoption proceedings filed, and seven petitions for naturalization. Marriage licenses totalled 289. Two poultry dealer and four junk dealer licenses were sold. There were 43 notary bonds filed and 19 passport applications made. Resident hunting, fishing, and > trapping licenses issued numbered 3,676 this year, and 562 fishing licenses were issued to women. Non-residents bought 46 annual fishing licenses, 19 14-day fishing licenses, and 40 hunting, fishing and trapping licenses. There were 'll deer licenses sdld, and 28 trout stampk. '

Gas Shortage Brings Layoffs To Hoosiers Kansas Explosion Brings Shortage By UNITED PUSS ( A wave of industrial plant layoffs idled thousands of Hoosiers today as the result of a natural gas shortage caused by an explosion in Kansas. The blaSt at Liberal, Kas., Wednesday reduced the pressure in a pipeline running eastward through Indiana, and state utilities distributing gas from the line had to call for industrial plant production curtailment to meet the emergency. The curtailment came in the season’s coldest weather, while thousands of families relied on gas from the line to heat their homes. Industries were hit hardest so what gas was available could be used for home heating. Fort Wayne, Fayette and Kokomo appeared to be affected the most by the gas shortage. At Fort Wayne, about 5,500 were laid off Thursday, including 3,300 at the International Harvester Co. That firm laid off about threefourths of its work force. Other companies reporting a complete shutdown were the Indiana Rod & Wire Division of Phelps-Dodge Corp., Rea Magent Wire Co., and Essex Wire Co. Inca Division of Phelps-Dodge was almost shut At Kokomo, -jshere 1,500 were laid off in nine plants, many of the workers involved were on the payroll of Delco Radio Division of General Motors. Chysler Corp, feared it mignt have to lay off some of 3,000 employes. More than 1,000 employes of the Aluminum Company of America at Lafayette were among 1,600 laid off in that city. Smaller groups of industrial workers were laid off temporarily at New Castle, Attica, Frankfort, Lebanon, Crawfordsville and Richmond. (Continued on Pave Six) County Council To Meet January 28-29 Two-Day Session Is Planned By Council Additional appropriations totalling $78,964 will be considered by the county council at a two-day session Jan. 28 ahd 29 at the county court house. The requests for the additional appropriations were filed by the county commissioners and by the trustees of Adams county memorial hospital. The hospital trustees are seeking $23,224 and $36,375 for building and equipment. The commissioners have requested 318,000 for the purchase of a bulldozer for the county surveyor/ The commissioners have also requested S6OO for the treasurer’s operating and delinquency funds, sl3 for per diem and mileage for the sheriff’s department, and $752 for a stoker for the county highway garage. Interested taxpayers are invited to appear at the meeting to be heard on why or why not these additional appropriations should be approved. Any emergency appropriations approved by the council will be referred to the state board of tax commissioners. This Board will hold a further hearing within 15 days at the county auditor’s office. The legal notice on the council meeting appears in today’s edition of the Decatur Daily Democrat. Indianapolis Man Is Killed By Coal INDIANAPOLIS (UP) -William G. Miles, 45, Indianapolis, was 'killed late Thursday when buried beneath tons of coal which dislodged as he worked to free a jam caused by the cold weather. Miles was buried eight feet deep in the shifting mass. About 40 coworkers and members of the Marlon County sheriff's office worked frantically to rescue him from the 50-foot pile of coal.

Predict U.N. To Back Move On Withdrawal Resolution Gives Israel Five Days Ta Remove Troops UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. /UP) —Arab and Asian diplomats predicted passage in the U.N. General Assembly today of a resolution giving Israel five days to pull its troops out of Israel. At the same time, however, more support was expected for an Australian suggestion to station U.N. emergency troops in the Gaza Strip and along the Gulf of Aqaba. Canada was listed as the first speaker when debate resumed this morning. A vote was expected this afternoon. Both the United States and Russia have expressed support for the Arab-Asian resolution, sponsored by the entire bloc with the exception of Egypt and Laos. The resolution is mildly worded. It noted with “regret and concern” Israeli troops have not been withdrawn completely behind the demarcation lines set up under the 1949 Palestine Armistice. It called for no penalties against Israel for failure to comply with the five-day deallne. The 25 sponsors rejected Egypt’s demands for sanctions. Israel has been demanding some guarantee that the Gaza Strip will not be used as a base for Egyptian commando raids in the future and that the Gulf of Aqaba will remain open to shipping There was no move, however, to offer a resolution embodying the Australian idea. The sent! ment was that a new resolution at this time would simply muddy the situation. Informed sources expeced Israeli Foreign Minister Golda Meir would offer some ideas on the Aqaba and Gaza Strips in private talks with U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold this week. Mrs. Meir said Thursday Israel hoped to put forward a plan in which “the withdrawal of Israeli military forces from the Gaza Strip can well be qpe of the elements.” Most diplomats believed the assembly would wait until the expiration of the five-day limit proposed by the Afro-Asian bloc. Unless other developments pre(OMUBUM Ob Gas Consumption By Industry Curtailed Two Companies Are ■ Affected By Blast > M. J. Pryor, manager of the < local office of the Northern Indi- 1 ana Public Service company, stated today that gas consumption by < two local industries has been cur- 1 tailed due to the explosion at a > compressing plant at Liberal, / Kan., Thursday. Industrial use of gas has been « cut at the Decatur General Elec- ' trie plant and Decatur Casting ’ company. However, the cut was J not so drastic to cause a layoff, J of employes at either company. Pryor stated that work began • immediately to put the natural gas compressing plant of tfoe Panhandl Eastern Pipe Line company ’ back into operation but that there is no estimate available on the . time that will be needed to complete repairs. j The Panhandle company sup- j plies the gas distributed by ( NIPSCO. It was announced that ] the temporary curtailment will j affect only industries. There is not expected to be a curtailment in home consumption. The two Decatur industrial users have been cut to the maximum amount allowed during the emergency. Pryor expressed appreciation for the cooperation of the local industries during the emergency period, v

Atomic Submarine Curtailment Scored Navy Is Criticized By Senator Jackson WASHINGTON (UP) - Sen. Henry M. Jackson (D-Wash) criticized the Navy today for “curtailing” its atomic submarine program at a time when the weapon represents “the great hope of the Navy.’’ Jackson said he intends to investigate the reasons behind the Navy cutback and whether it results from a conflict within the Navy over the future of the atomic submarine. The investigation will be carried out by the military applications subcommittee of the Joint Congressional Atomic Energy Committee. Jackson heads the subcommittee. The military budget presented to Congress this week provides authority for four more atomic submarines in contrast to six authorized in the current budget. Altogether the Navy now has 15 aomic submarines either authorized, under construction or completed. Jackson, who in the past has prodded the Navy to accelerate the building of atomic submarines, said he was “alarmed” over the “definite curtailment” in the program. • Jackson suggested that the subcommittee may go into the question of whether the Navy is correct in wanting to spend more than 300 millicm dollars oft : a huge atomic-powered supercarrier requested in next year’s budget. He observed that Dr. Edward Teller, leading atomic physicist and the "father of the H bomb,” suggested the Navy should concentrate on building an atomic submarine fleet because “anything on the surface of the ocean” is “too good a target.” The Navy itself refused to discuss why it is curtailing the construction rate of atomic submarines, claiming it was a privileged matter which had to be told to Congress first. Panel Discussion At S’ Join! PTA Meeting Lincoln, Northwest PTAs Meet Thursday A panel discussion on "Discipline” was featured at the joint meeting of the Northwest elementary and Lincoln P. T. A. groups at Northwest school Thursday evening. The invocation for the meeting was given by the Rev. Ray Walther, and the meeting was conducted by Mrs. John Kelley, president of the Northwest P. T. A. Dr. Louise Brumbaugh, head of the psychological division of the Fort Wayne schools, served as moderator. A minister, the Rev. Virgil Sexton, presented "What is discipline and what are the objectives?” "By meeting basic needs of children” was discussed by a parent, Mrs. Lawrence Anspaugh. “By helping children grow up emotionally" was discussed by Bryce Thomas, principal of Lincoln school. Robert Doan, a teacher, talked on "Motivating children toward acceptable attitudes, learning, behavior." A pupil, Karen Zimmerman, discussed "Developing common rules, goals between youth and adults.” Following the presentation of the panel, the audience participated in a general discussion. Mrs. Ray Walther and Mrs. Charles Long were program chairmen for the joint meeting. ~ Refreshments were served by Mrs. Roy Friedley, Mrs. Jay Markley, Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Hill, Mr. and Mrs. John Ebersole, Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Doty, and Mr. and Mrs. Paul Morgan. ; - - • INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy with little change in temperature tonight and Saturday. Low tonight 5-18 north, 18-15 south. High Saturday 15-22 north, 2238 south. Sunset 5:« p-m., sunrise Saturday 8:82 a.m.

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Huge Bombers Establish New Flight Record Slash Old Record By More Than Half 1 . A On World Flight MARCH AIR FORCE BASE, ■ Calif. (UP)—Three 852 Strato- ’ fortresses, America’s interconti- ; nental hydrogen bomb carriers, ; landed here today to complete the first non-stop jet flight around the ’ world. They landed at 12:20.3 CST. Flying at better than a 500-mile-per-hour clip, they were in the air , 45 hours and 20-plus minutes. Five . 852 s originally took off from Cali- . fornia. One dropped out at ap- . proximately the halfway mark . with mechanical tremble, another . made it to England and was held there. The other three continued on. Gen. Curtis Lemay, commander 1 of the Strategic Air Command, announced the flight conducted a 1 simulated • nuclear bomb drop at ’ roughly the halfway point, west ot the Malay peninsula, "in a demon- ' stration of the SAC global capa- * bilities to strike any target on the face of the earth.” ■ € The huge eight-pod jet bombers . set a new globe-girdling flight «*- , ord, slashing by more than half ■ the old record time ot 94 hours ’ set by an Air Force propellorj driven plane eight years ago. It was toe first non-stop, round- ‘ toe-world jet -flight. The threeplane formation refueled three times in mid-air from Air Force aerial tankers during the more than 24,000-mile sky-blazing trip. Although toe refueling points were not immediately announced, it was calculated by unofficial Air Force sources that the planes, which took off Wednesday from Castle AFB near Merced, CaUf., north ot here, had received their refueling lines somewhere over toe eastern Mediterranean, again over Saudi Arabia, and toe last time over the Philippines before heading for California on the return leg. Citation for Airmen Some of the refuelings were at tfght, some inbad weather, ac cording to Air Force spokesman Maj. Jack Steffensen, "but this failed to hamper the tanker operation.” Lemay was waiting for the heroic airmen of his command when they landed. He had a citation ready for them, praising them for establishing “a record that will go down lUoot>nu»a on Pa«o SAnMi Youngsters Escape Tragic Accident Warning Given By Railroad Officials A six-year-old girl and her nine-year-old brother narrowly escaped a tragic accident Thursday as they crossed the Erie Railroad 200 leet west of toe Third street crossing. The near-tragedy occurred when the youngsters started to cross the tracks right after an east bound train had passed. As they stepped onto the tracks, they saw another train approaching from the other direction. The boy ran back to wait until the train passed but the little girl started to run across the tracks. She tripped and fell, rolling over the last rail onto the road bed. and toe train missed her by seconds. The incident was reported by W. M. Bumgerdner, agent for the Erie railroad here. The parents of the youngsters were notified and asked to give their children instructions about railroad safety. Bumgerdner pointed out that all parents should take care that their children know one of the cardinal rules of railway safety: "Never cross a railroad, any place but at a marked crossing!” He warned that violation of this rule causes incidents such as toe Thursday episode here and that other violators might not be so fortunate as the two local youngsters were yestor day.