Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 28, Decatur, Adams County, 2 February 1957 — Page 1

Vol. LV. No. 28.

TIDYING HP FOR FEB. 28 ASSOCIATE JUSTICE Stanley Reed tidies up his desk in Washington as he looks to Feb. 28, his retirement day.

Five Bills Up For Boos! In Teachers' Pay Republican Leader Doubts Democrats' ; Will Pass INDIANAPOLIS (UP) — A Re.publican" leader in the Indiana Legislature said today it was “totally inconceivable” that two Democratic bills to raise teacher pay would pass this session. But the statement by Sen. D. Russell Bontrager (R-Elkhart), chairman of the Senate Education Committee, did not rule out more money for teachers. Leaders of both parties agreed it would depend on what happens to the state budget. So far, five bills to hike teacher salaries have been introduced in both houses. The latest, introduced Friday by Republican Rep. Harriet Stout of Indianapolis, would allow a tow "exceptional" teachers to earn up b» $UM*> a year. J The other bills were introduced by Democrats. Two of them would raise the starting minimum for a teacher with four years of college from $2,72? to $4,200. One was offered by Sens. James W. Spurgeon, Brownstown, and Warren W. Martin, Clarksville. The other was introduced by Reps. William Herring, Linton, and Naomi Kirk, New Albany Mlnlmum Bills by Democratic Sens. Von Eichhorn. Uniondale, and Matthew Welsh, Vincennes, and Democratic Reps. Donald Foltz, Clinton, and Walter Maehling, Terre Haute, called for a $3,600 starting salary. All four bills call for a top minimum of $7,200 for a teacher with a master’s degree and 24 years experience. The top now is $4,527. Rep. Robert L. Nash (R-Tipton), chairman of the House Education Committee, accused Democrats of offering pay hike bills as “window dressing” for voters’ benefit. But Maehling said his bill was no joke. He claimed it had a good chahce of passage, although it hinges on whether the budget can be cut enough or taxes raised enough to permit it. One temporary budget cut struck a heavy blow at chances for a salary hike. Thursday night, the House Ways and Means •’A” Committee chopped nearly six million dollars from state funds that help pay teacher salaries. Bontrager said he wouldn’t "hazard a guess” on whether teachers would get more money, but said it was "totally inconceivable” that either of the Senate bills would pass. i*mnMe Basic Hike House Speaker George Diener, Indianapolis, said if the Republi-can-controlled assembly decides to grant a raise, it should apply only to the basic starting minimum, with local school boards setting tire rest of the scale. Bontrager Senate GOP leader Roy Conrad. Monticello, said he “wouldn’t think the Senate bills would have • too much chance.” Democrat Martin was gloomy about passage of “I would assume it’s been placed in the deep-freeze,” Martin said. Meanwhile, lawmakers recessed until Monday. Only one week was left to introduce bills. The number of bills and resolutions offered after 17 days neared 600. In the 1955 session, more than 1,000 measures were introduced. Decatur Ministers Will Meet Monday The Decatur Ministerial association will meet Monday morning at 9:30 o’clock, in the parlor of the Zion Evangelical and Reformed church. The Rev. Carroll Myers will lead in devotions.

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Some Rural Areas Have lower Taxes Six Os Townships Have Lower Rates Tax rates in rural areas of half of Adams county's 12 townships have declined in the past year, county auditor Edward F. Jaberg reported tooay. A comparison of taxes on a farm in each township last year and this year shows that Preble, Root, Union, St. Mary’s, Hartford, and Jefferson townships have declining rates, while Washington. Kirkland, French, Monroe, Blue Creek, and Wabash have increased slightly. Lowest rate for 1957 will be Preble township, with a rate of $2.26 per acre. This is a decrease of 16 cents over the 1956 rate of $2.42 per acre. Many of the school children in Preble, Root, and Union townships attend parochial schools, which decreases tax cost, but boosts cost to the individual concerned. A 17$-acre farm in Preble township paid $283.62 in taxes a year ago, and only 826448 this ytu. In Union township tire rate Ms decreased train $2.58 to $2.50, BO that an 80-acre farm which cost $162.28 in taxes last year will cost $157.25 this year. In Root township the rate de- > dined from $3.06 to $3.02, so that a 120-acre farm’s fate per SIOO of ; evaluation decreased from $210.22 to $207.48. i In St. Mary’s township, a 12-cent 1 decrease, third largest in the coun- I ty, took the rate from $3.18 to $3.06. This means that a 120-acre 1 farm that paid $£19.74 last year, 1 will pay $211.44 this year. The largest cut in taxes came ’ in Jefferson township, which cut the rate 32 cents. This year's rate will be $3 compared with last year's $3.32, while Jefferson high school yas still running, An 80- ] acre farm which paid $215.14 in ] taxes last year pays Only <194.40 , this year. Hartford township’s rate decreased 8 cents, from $3.08 to $3. A 160-acre farm paid $220.52 last year and $214.80 this year. Biggest rate increase occurred in Wabash township, where rates rocketed from $3.02* to $3.96, 94 cents. A 119-acre farm that paid $139.82 a year ago will pay $183.34 in 1957. A 38-cent increase on taxes on each SIOO of evaluation was made in French township. Here the rate increased from $8.14 to $3.52, which means that a 155 acre farm which cost $362.04 in 1956 will cost $405.88 this year. Three townships, Washington, Monroe, and Kirkland, had a 16cent increase. In Washington township, the rate increased from $3.42 to $3.58. An 80 acre farm which was charged $235.64 in 1956 pays $246.66 this year. In Monroe township, the rate increased from $3.28 to $3.44. An 80-acre farm there paid $225 in 1956 and will pay $235.98 in 1957. In Kirkland township, the rate went from $3.30 to $3.46. A 100acre farm paying $341.22 last year pays $357.76 this year. Blue Creek’s rate rose from $2.64 to $2.68. An 80-acre farm there paid $154.70 in 1956 and tite yenr, .. Auditor Jaberg stressed that these figures were taken from the actual assessment rate for a partCaatiaaee Page Fira) New Social Security Feature In Democrat A new feature is added to today’s Daily Democrat and it will appear each Saturday on the editorial page. Tbe addition deals with questions and answers to social security problems. Subscribers are invited to write their queries to Social Security, care of Daily Democrat, and they will be answered in the special column. Answers wQI be formulated by tbe Fort Wayne district social seucrtty office.

Flood Waters Are Easing In South States 15 Persons Killed, ♦ Estimate Damage In Billions Os Dollars By UNITED PRESS Floodwaters that rampaged through nine southern states, killing 15‘persons, causing damage in the billions and leaving thousands homeless ebbed today under clear skies and a vast man-made barrier against uncontrolled waters. .: i Rains that sent muddy rivers spilling over their banks in tbe Appalachians and started swollen headwaters menacingly southward ceased over most of the flooded area and the raging waters were systematically diverted into nondanger areas by the Tennessee Valley Authority. Disaster teams rushed into the silt-eovered areas of Kentucky, West Virginia and Virginia where the waters dealt the cruattest blows, but farther south in Tennessee, flood control experts worked to avoid more suffering and property damage. Dams Divert Water Dams in the vast TVA system, built years ago to minimise flood damage in the valley spillway, successfully diverted the wateip from swollen rivers Into tributaries and lakes with a minimum of flooding. As the flood waters backed away from the devastation farther north, it appeared that Kentucky was hardest hit. Kentucky Gov. A. B. Chandler estimated damage at $1 billion and said as many as 10,000 families were left temporarily homeless by the high waters. Chandler ordered National Guardsmen into Floyd County to prevent looting in the valley towfts stricken bjf the floods and asked the Civil Defense Administration for $500,000 to use in a clean-up campaign in the mud-covered commuotttes. . ' Army Aids itiicko Area* The Army rnmesmced tnav ail cities cut off by the high waters had received emergency supplies and teams of relief workers, doctors and nurses rushed to the stricken areas. At least 15 persons were dead as a result of the floods. Kentucky counted seven fatalities. West Virginia and Virginia three each and one death was reported in Alabama and another in Tennessee. The weatherman promised at at least temporary relief. The forecast for today was for clear skies and no rajn over the flooded area with the front moving across South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi. However, there was a threat of more rain in the stricken areas late Saturday night or Sunday and it was feared that more rain might spill the mighty Ohio River from its banks Zand cause still more flood damage. Operation Costs Os Swimming Pool Low 13.99 Cents A Swim For Pool Operation Don’t shiver and shake at the thought of it, but Decatur’s swimming pool, which provided 28,994 swims tor local residents last year, is one of the most economically run in the United States. ’ A careful survey of city records shows that it cost only 13.99 cents per swim for Decatur to furnish recreation and relaxation for adults and children alike last year. This favorably compares with Fort/Wayne’s cost of 14.3 cents per swim. The four Fort Wayne pools charge up to 75 cents per swim, and get an SB,OOO grant from the Zollner corporation, and still have a cost to their city of 14.3 cents per swim in addition. Fort Wayne's rate is believed to be one of the lowest in the United States. Decatur’s swimming pool, operated this past year by . Mr. and 12 r w^k 8 /£o& J jSe J ii’ S S tember 3. Cold weather and rain dosed the pool 9 days, and cut attendance on several other days, so that this year’s costs are slightly above average. The Decatur pool charges no admission. Sunday proved the most popular day for swimming, with a total of 5,428 dips in the local pool taking place on that day. Friday was second most popular," with 5,121 swims. Other figures are Monday 4,310; Wednesday, 3,930: Thursday, 3,811; Saturday, 8,224; Tuesday, 3,170. With last year’s cool summer weather, more hardy males outnumbered the females in swims, 1C.333 to 12,361. A locker service and checking service for valuables (Coatlaued on Pace Five)

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Decatur. Indiana, Saturday, February 2, 1957

20 Passengers Killed In Mysterious Crash Os Big DC 6A Airliner

ike And Saud I 1 Talk Recessed Until Monday Agree Prospects Os Middle East Peace Aided By Parleys * WASHINGTON (UP)—President Elsenhower and King Saud today parted temporarily leaving their aides to work out a program of American military and economic aid for the king's desert kingdom. The President and the oil-rich Saudi Arabian monarch recessed their talks until late next week after agreeing that they have increased the prospects of peace in the Middle East. Informed sources said the President told the king the United States is willing to provide bigscale military and Small-scale economic aid to Saudi Arabia. An arms agreement would end a longstanding U.S. policy against providing major military aid to Middle Eastern nations. Official Draft Plan American and Saudi Arabian officials will work on the necessary agreements during the next few days. The President and king planned to meet again probably ■WIVKatSS tions. .. - Mr. Eisenhower planned to leave the capital by plane this morning for a golfing weekend at Augusta, Ga. He planned to return Sunday afternoon. Saud headed this morning for, a one-day tour of the U.S. Naval Academy at nearby Annapolis, Md. He was scheduled to address the midshipmen and attend the Navy-Duke basketball game. Headed For Resort He planned to return to the capital tonight and remain throughout next week instead of going to White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., for a few days rest as originally scheduled. The Presiaent and the king toasted each other and the cause of peace in orange juice Friday night at an ornate dinner at the swank Mayflower Hotel. The tall, bearded monarch Braised U.S. policies in the Middle East and called the President “a man who is far sighted, wiseminded and worthy of every appreciation.” John Edward Bebout Dies This Morning Funeral Services Monday Afternoon John Edward Bebout, 78, retired farmer and lifelong resident of Adams county, died at 5:30 o’clock this morning at the home of a dauhter, Mrs. Thurman Douglas, 443 Winchester street. He had been ill for two years and critical for the past 10 days. Born in Jefferson township Jan. 27, 1879. He was a son of Isaiah and Elizabeth Fisher-Bebout. His wife, the former Victoria Arvelle Tumbleson, preceded him in death in 1938. Mr. Bebout had resided on Monroe route one smce 1947. He was a member of the Moose ladge in Decatur. Surviving in addition to three daughter in this city are five other ' daughtt-fls, Miss Faye Bebout, De* catur, Mrs. Vernon Niblick, Decatur route one, Mrs. Alvah Bitzell, Fort Wayne, Mrs. John McMillen. Decatur route six, and Mrs. Philip Rehm, Pleasant Mills; three sons, Thurman Bebout, Decatur rout three, Gayle and Robert Bebout, Monroe route one; 16 grandchildren and 19 great-grand-children. One son and one daughter preceded him in death. Funeral services win be conducted at 2 p.m. Monday at the Mt. Hope Church of the Nazarene, the Rev. Kenneth Swan ' officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Friends may call at the Zwick funeral home after 7 o’clock this evening until 12 noon Monday, when the body will be removed to the church to lie In state until time of the services.

. e Warring Factions Os Union To Meet Seek Formula For Settling Disputes MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (UP)_ AFIXJIO President George Meany today planned weekend meetings with warring factions in the huge labor organization to work out a formula for settling jurisdictional disputes. Meany still had not announced 1 any progress in solving disputes r between the Industrial Union Der partment (IUD) and the Building 1 Trades Department, the two ma- ■ jor divisions in the makeup of the • AFL-CIO. 1 But he met throughout the week 1 with representatives of both sac- : tions at the AFL-CIO Executive • Council’s mid-winter conference. 1 The union leaders quit the conference table today and were • flown in helicopters to an aircraft 1 carrier offshore for a luncheon. ■ They planned to relax over the • weekend before winding up the 1 conferences Monday and Tuesday. Friday, Vice President James ’ R. Hoffa of the powerful Team- • sters Union announced that per capita payments to the IUD covering some 375,000 Teamsters as- ’ filiated with that department will ' be withheld beginning this month. This apparently was part of a ! move announced earlier to ' the Building Trades f apartment, to which the major-. ' ity of the Teamsters’ 1,400,000 members belong. • Hoffa said after announcing 1 withholding of the funds from the t IUD that the Teamsters “abso- ’ lutely” do not plan to withdraw from the AFL-CIO. [ The feud between the IUD, com--1 posed mostly of former CIO workers in mass production industry, ; and the Building Trades Depart- • ment, made up chiefly of the craft unions of the old AFL, has gone on for some 20 years. The fight is fundamentally over which workers are entitled to do what jobs. President David J. Me Donald of the big United Steelworkers Union, one of the groups around which the jurisdictional battle revolves, appeared before the council Friday to assure members he "does not believe the AFL-CIO is going on the rocks.” Two Murder Clues Made Public Today Seek Outside Help In Grimes Murders CHICAGO (UP) — Police informed the public of two clues in the Grimes sisters murders today, in the hope that they might receive outside help in the search for the killer of the two teenage sisters. The discovery of an imported gold perfume atomizer and a gold eyebrow pencil near the bodies of Barbara, 15, and Patricia Grimes, 13, when they were found last Jan. 22, had been kept secret. x Police said their presence at the scene indicated they could have been used as a lure to attract the girls into a car on the night of their disappearance Dec. 28. Authorities said they had made no mention of the two articles in the hope they could learn who purchased the expensive pieces. But police have failed to locate the source of the two beauty aids so Police Lt. Joseph Morris asked , anyone . with knowledge of who, might have owned the articles to come forward. Police still do not know the cause M the girls’ death, or when it happened. They have renewed their search for the killer after Bennie (The Dishwasher) Bedwell repudiated his confession to the murders. A third court hearing on Bedwell’s. attempt to gain freedom on bond was scheduled to be held today. INDIANA WEATHER Considerable cloudiness tonight and Sunday. Little change in temperature except a little warmer Sunday. Low tonight 22-3 s, high Sunday 3042. Outlook for Monday: Mostly cloudy and a little warmer.

Tension Grows On Border Os Israel, Egypt I General Assembly In Weekend Debate On New Proposals UNITED NATIONS; N.Y. (UP) —A clash between Israeli and U.N. Emergency Forces (UNEF) and growing tension along the Is-' raeli-Egyptian border lent force today to U.N. demands that Israel quit Egyptian territory at once. , . o The General Assembly begins weekend debate today on new. American-backed proposals to get Israel out of Egypt and take steps to maintain Middle East peace. U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. was expected to address the group at today's session. The situation was given a note of urgency when the United Nations announced that a Swedish patrol of UNEF exchanged fire with Israeli soldiers near the Gaza Strip Friday morning. No casualties were reported. First Israeli Exchange It was the first dash involving i UNEF and Israeli soldiers, although a Yugoslav unit comtier of Israeli mines. I yjiAEii 1 tncufiwTigecL nrc wish Egyptian terrorists in Port Said ; shortly after the international ■ force entered the area. A U.N. spokesman said tire clash occurred near Rafah at the Egyptian end of the Gaza Strip. He said five Israeli soldiers chasing a group of refugees failed to answer the challenge of a Swedish patrol and that both sides cotchanged gunfire. UNEF Commander Maj. Gen. E.L.M. Burns of Canada sent a “strong protest” to Israel. The resolution calling on Israel to withdraw from Gaza was sponsored by the United States, India and five other nations which contribute troops to UNEF. An American spokesman expressed confidence the. resqlution would pass. Others Not As Sure Other diplomats were less certain. A British spokesman said his delegation awaited “with interest any interpretations that may be placed on the resolutions by their sponsors or by others.” The United States helped sponsor two resolutions. The second recognizes that Israel’s withdrawal “must be followed by action which would assure progress towards the creation of peaceful conditions.” This gives Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold- the (CoattßMS •• Paa* Five) Mrs. Nellie M. Ault Dies At Lima, Ohio Funeral Services Monday Afternoon Mrs. Nellie M. Ault, 73, a resident of Willshire township, Van Wert county, 0., from 1925 until a few months ago, died at 3:05 p.m. Friday at the Lima, 0., memorial hospital following an illness of four months. Death was caused by a pulmonary embolism. She was born in Allen county, 0., Marsh 10, 1883, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Brown, and was married to Harry G. Ault Jan. 28, 1914. Her husband died In May of last year. Mrs. Ault taught for several years in the bld one-room schools in Allen county, O. Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Helen L. Neate of York township. Van Wert county, and Mrs. Alice Foust of Lima; three grandchildren, and two sisters, Mrs. Kathryn Horn of Waynesfield, 0., and Mrs. Margaret Tapscott of Lima. One sister is deceased. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Monday at the Cowan & Son funeral home In Van Wert, the Rev. Albert Straley and the Rev. Ralph Metheny officiating. Burial will be In Woodlawn cemetery at Ohio City. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o’clock this evening.

Wilson Denies Any Reflection On Guard No Reflection On Individual Guards WASHINGTON (UP) - Secretary of-Defense Charles E. Wilson said Friday night he never intended any reflection on individual members of the National Guard when he charged the Guard had been ”a draft dodging business.” But WUson did not back down on his charge that some young men were able to duck active military duty during the Korean War by joining the Guard. The outspoken defense chief today headed for a two-week vacation in the warm Florida sunshine, leaving behind demands fire his resignation from congressmen, guardsmen, state governors and others. He said he meant no “reflection” on individual guard Members but only wished to draw attention to a system that tends to perpetuate *“a low standard of training and readiness." He said, "We fully recognize the great contribution” of National Guard units mobilized during the Korean fighting and other wars. Wilson said it “is no reflection on the patriotism” of Guardsmen to recognize that some of its members “stayed at home without even undergoing the rigors of hafA Btft Re added that “ft is not difficult to realize, without questioning his (the Guardsman’s) motives, the attitude which this developed in the minds of many parents whose sons had gone off to fight in Korea.” Maj. Gen. Ellard A. Walsh, president of the National Guard Association, declined direct comment on Wilson’s new statement. He had labeled the secretary’s original charge a “damned lie.” Walsh said he would hold his fire until he appears at a House armed services subcommittee hearing next week. He said "we will state our case then and reply fully to Mr. Wilson’s unfounded charges.” Police On Guard For Renewal Os Violence Violence In State Over Long Strike OAKLAND CITY, Ind. (IP) - Police today were on guard for new violence in this industrial area which was rocked by explosions and gunfire apparently touched off by strikers who sought to stop a back-to-work movement. Authorities said three dynamite blasts that tore into the home of a worker and shotgun attacks on another back-to-work member’k home Friday were the worst inci-| dents of violence yet in a 4-month-old strike of a machinists’ union. Melvin Wright, one of 1,100 members of the International Association of Machinists at the Porter-Brumfield Co. in nearby Princeton, on strike since November over grievance disputes, had tried to call the strike quits. He was awakened early Friday by a blast which shook his fourroom house, ripped away the front and smashed windows. Wright and his wife escaped Injury but damage to their home and a nearly motel, Whose winestimated at several thousand dollars. Two shotgun blasts were fired through the windows of Albert C. Smith’s house who also wanted to go back to work. Smith, of nearby Ayshire, his wife and 3-year-olfl daughter were sleeping when the shots ripped through the window's of their bedroom. They escaped injury. . A third non-striker, Albert Thompson, reported shotgun blasts at his home at Winslow. No injuries were reported. ’ Violence marked the start Os the strike and has persisted in milder forms since. NOON EDITION

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- 1 ’ ~ • ■ ' ■MMN■■■ 75 Injured In Mystery Crash In Snowstorm Intensive Probe Os Mysterious Crash Is Launched Today NEW YORK (UP) — The Civil Aeronautics Board started an iptensive investigation today into the mysterious crash in a blinding snowstorm of a DC6A airliner, carrying persons. Twenty passengers were killed in the crash of the four-engine Northeast Airlines plane on Rikers Island in the East River. Another 75 passengers were treated on the island and in New York hospitals. All five crew members and a stewardess making an orientation flight survived the crash. The plane was piloted by Capt. Alva W. Marsh, who was suspended for 21 days after a crash in the East River on Jan. 14, 1952. Survivors’ accounts of the tense few seconds before the crash differed. One passenger thought there might have been an explosion. Another said that an engine caught fire. Rep. Steven B. Derounian [ (R-NY) demanded a congressional investigation. He said he wanted to Iknow why fee takeoff wte cleared . in the snowstorm aftery several . hours of delay and asked assur- . ance that airlines “are not loading , their planes to get the last two , cents out of a plane load and in bad weather to boot.” Boat Brings Bodies i Police Commissioner Stephen P. . Kennedy accepted an offer from J. Edgar Hoover to put the FBI at i the New York police department’s disposal in helping to identify the i charred and mangled bodies. As dawn broke oven the snow covered island which is used as a city prison, the ferry boat Astoria chugged across the river with 30 bodies in body bags. The bodies were placed in rows of twos, 10 in a row, in the front part of the ferry with several emergency police surrounding the bags. “At least one of the bodies is that of a small child,” a highranking police official in the emergency squad said. A truck waiting at the ferry slip took the bodies to Bellevue morgue for identification. Police said some bodies were burned beyond recognition. Others still have pieces of clothing and jewelry which police hope will help in identifying them. Seirch for Cause On Rikers Island about 50 policemen began searching the crash scene at daybreak in hopes of finding clues to the cause of the tragedy. Eight Airmen Die ST. LO, France (UP)—Two fourengined U.S. “Flying Tankers” crashed in flames near this famed World War II breakout city today, killing at least eight crewmen, it was reported here. U.S. Air Force spokesmen in London said two K 829 tankers—modified versions of the 829, the world’s first atomic bomber—were overdue on a flight that would have taken them over the St. Lo area of northern France. It was uncertain how many crewmen the planes carried. An announcement issued by the St. Lo hospital said eight victim* (OoauniMM <»• *-»• 'rat/ Retail Division To Meet Tuesday Night To Plan Activities Robert Lane, chairman of the retail division of the Decatur Chamber Os Commerce, announced today that the monthly meeting of the division will be held at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Youth and Community Center. The monthly meeting is usuafly cause of the important business held at the noon hour, but beta be discussed, the February session Will be an evening dinner meeting. Included for discussion Tuesday evening will be formulation of the retailers’ activities for the year, and all members are urged to be present.