Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 36, Decatur, Adams County, 12 February 1957 — Page 1

■ Vol. LV. No. 36.

ATOMS FOR PEACE your"**"**- w- ''3*' , l -*aW>P»‘ ir ’' ; CjOtfVi /' > 3® h 0 l ■ ooco iT vOO-op ftC • a! 111 niBHmBSHI I BSM HHnll LjUW ~ i ' LJ| c wr?n IBH i SCIENTIFIC HISTORY was made Saturday at Argonne National Laboratory in Lemont. 111., when Chairman of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, flipped the switch to start the nation’s first atomic furnace, which can supply the electrical needs of a city of 120,000 persons. Standing by are Lewis L. Strauss, Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, (center), and Lawrence Kimpton (right), Chancellor 6f the University of Chicago.

Red Nations Face Trouble Over Finance Revolts Are Start As Sateiites Are Needing More Cash By CHARLES M. McCANN ■i United Press Staff Correspondent — Soviet Russia and its satellites are facing serious economic difficulties. The situation stems from the rebellions in Poland and Hungary. Russia itself, East Germany, Czechoslovakia and Hungary are the countries chiefly affected. But the difficulties extend also to other Soviet satellite nations. The Soviet government has disclosed some of the problems involved in a series of announcements that started in December with the dismissal of Deputy Premier Maxim Z. Saburov, its chief economic planner. Russia has sharply cut back the rate of "Its industrial expansion. East Germany and Czechoslovakia are threatened by possibly the biggest shortage of coal since the end of World W ar 11. Hungary’s whole economic situation is little better than chaotic. Reasons For Troubles What has happened is that the tightly-interlocking economic systems of Russia and the satellites have been thrown out of gear. For years, Russia was able to direct, exploit and loot the industries of its Communist satellites. V Now Poland is directing its industry for its own good under WladysiawtsGomulka, its independent Communist leader. Poland’s coal was used, for instance, for Russia's benefit until its rebellion. This coal was sold, by Russian demand, at lower than world prices. Now the Soviet government* has been compelled to agree to renegotiate its coal contracts. but even with that, Poland is getting first bid in its own production. -‘•iW-ijhngary, which was a source of food, raw materials and industrial products for countries of the Soviet bloc, has become a liability instead of an asset and is crying for aid from Russia. Production Goods Missed On January 30, the Soviet government announced that there was a rise of 11 per eent in industrial production in 1956. But it disclosed that the basic industries of steel, coal and building materials, among others, had failed to meet their quotas for the year. Last Saturday the Supreme Soviet, the parliament of the Soviet Union, approved a 1957 budget which provided for the biggest cutback in 20 years in the rate of ecohomic expansion. On Feb. 6, Bruno Leuschner, chief economic planner for East Germany, announced that 1957 production quotas must be cut and the program for capital investments whittled down because of the failure of Poland and Hungary to meet their export agreements. The most serious immediate problem for the East German Reds is the coal shortage. Communist leaders have started to appeal to technicians and ordinary workers to volunteer for service in German mines to help make up the shortage. (Coatinacd oa Pace Five)

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Slate Senate Has Lincoln Day Meet Euology Is Given By Two Leaders INDIANAPOLIS (IP) — The Indiana Senate observed Lincoln's birthday today with a Democratic leader praising Lincoln and President Eisenhower, and a Republican leader paying tribute to Thomas Jefferson. It was a strange’ political twist as Sen. Eugene Bainbridge (DMunsterl and Sen. John Van Ness (R-Valparaiso) exchanged comments before a joint session of House and Senate heard a scheduled Lincoln address by Judge Donald Hunter of LaGrange. # Bainbridge read a prepared, statement chiding Republicans of past years for ‘‘repudiating Lincoln’s plan for compassiionate reconstruction before the railroad car carrying his body reached Illinois.” Bainbridge said it's up to the Democrats to carry forward Lincoln’s program. Then, witn reference to President Eisenhower. Bainbridge said: “Another leader of the people has brought into power with him men who spurned his philosophy. These heirs who bask in the names of Lincoln and Eisenhower balk when confronted with the principles of the men who saw this great natfcn as one people.” Van Ness, who traditionally replies to Democratic attacks on the majority party, called Bainbridge's sentiments “strange”. He said he is “proud to be a Republican.” , - . “But I am also going to praise a great Democrat,” Van Ness said, and mentioned his regard for Jefferson because he felt that “government is . best which governs least.” The legislative pace slowed for ♦he Lincoln celebration after a busy Mondav during which one of two “right to work" bills was kept in committee, thus avoiding a showdown on the controversial issue. Sen. Lander Is 111 In Naval Hospital WASHINGTON (W — Sen. William Langer (R-ND > today lay critically ill of pneumonia and pleurisy at Bethesda Naval Hospital. The colorful 70-year-old senator has been in the hospital since Feb. 4. his office disclosed Monday night. The statement said Langer has been in an oxygen tent and has had three blood transfusions. It quoted Dr. Bruce Canega, head of internal medicine at the hospital, as describing Langer as “critically ill.” ’ However, Canega also said Langer “is showing some improvement.” < , INDIANA WEATHER Mostly cloudy with occasional light snow north and east portions this, afternoon. Clearing tonight. Wednesday fair, somewhat warmer north and east portions. Low tonight 25 to 33. High Wednesday 38 to I 43 north, 43 to 50 south. Sunset 6:18 p.m.. sunrise Wednesday 7:40 a.m.

Corn Program Revision Will Be Attempted Democrats Want Corn Benefits In With All Grains WASHINGTON tUP) — The House Agriculture Committee prepared today to write a new government corn program in the face of Democratic demands that any new corn benefits be wrapped into an SBOO million package for producers of 11 other crops. Administration officials have warned that the com acreage control program and the surplus reducing soil bank program will collapse in 24 “commercial” producing states unless Congress boosts the 1957 corn planting allotment. But Rep. W.R. Poage (D-Tex), vice chairman of the House committee, said today there "probably will be no bill at all” unless midwestern Republicans are willing to vote other crops the benefits thoy want themselves. » Poage said committee Democrats were in "general agreement” on a bill he introduced Monday. The measure would offer SBOO million in federal soil bank payments to growers of 12 crops. The committee had tentatively scheduled an open hearing on the corn situation today. But the farm legislators were expected to go into closed session soon after convening to begin writing a bill. , Provisions of Bill Poage’s bill, which he said would give all major crops the aid sought for com, would work this way: —The 1957 corn allotment would be raised from 37.3 million acres to 43.2 million acres. —Growers of corn, cotton, wheat, peanuts, rice and tobacco would be given a 15 per cent acreage bonus on top of their fixed allotments: in the case of corn, on top of 43.2 million acres. —The "bonus” acreage could be put into the soil bank to earn government payments. No farmer would be eligible for price supports unless he planted within his allotment. —A new soil bank acreage reserve would be created for grain sorghums, barley, oats, soyi beans and flaxseed. To be eligible, growers would have to reduce plantings 15 per cent below the average of the last three years. For further reductions, growers would be paid sls an acre. Administration Opposes It Poage said the “bonus acreage” plan would put SSOO million into farmers’ pocketbooks this year and the new soil bank for grains would add another S3OO million. (Continued on Pace Five) Annual Report Due For Social Security April 15 Deadline For Earnings Report All persons who are receiving Social Security checks and have earned over SI2OO during 1956, must submit an annual Report of their 1956 earnings as soon as possible, and no later than April 15, 1957, if they want to avoid a possible loss of their monthly payments, according to Christian H. W. Luecke, Manager of the Fort Wayne Social Security District Office. Luecke explained it this way: “Under the annal earnings test, all persons under age 72, who receive Social Security payments, are allowed to earn up to, but not more than SI2OO a year, and still get all of their monthly checks for that year. Earnings for the entire year are used to determine whether a beneficiary has earned over SI2OO, and to determine how many monthly checks he can then receive for that year.” “When a beneficiary earns over the allowed SI2OO in any year,” Luecke said, “he will lose one of his monthly checks for every SBO or fraction of SBO he earns over the SI2OO. This is true for the year in which the worker files his claim. However, a beneficiary may receive a check for any month in which his earnings are SBO or less, and he is not! rendering services in self-employment.” t When asked how this Annual Earnings Test actually works, Luecke said: “When a person claims his Social Security, he agrees to report to us as soon as he expects to earn over SI2OO in any year. He also agrees, if that should happen, to submit a report of his earnings at the close of that year? To avoid a penalty, this report must be sent in by April 15 of the following year. On this report, he will show how much he earned during the year, and which months he earned SBO or less a wage earner, or rendered no service as a self-employed person. We then use this information to adjust (Continued on Fuse Five)

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Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, February 12,1957

House Committee Votes 6-5 To Hold Measure On Right To Work < - - - - -

) : Soviets Offer ; New Proposal On Middle East T Supply Os Arms f To Be Halted If Plan Agreed To : UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (UP)-i 1 Russia has offered to quit supplyr ing arms to the Arabs if the Westc ern Big Three will close down • their Middle East bases, Moscow [ dispatches said today. i The dispatches quoted informed 1 sources as saying the proposals were contained in notes given U.S., British and French ambassadors in Moscow Monday by So- . viet Foreign Minister Dmitri T. J Shepilov. ■ The notes called for a Big Four declaration of “hands off” Middle East affairs, the sources said. 1 They appeared to be a rebuttal to : the Eisenhower Doctrine for the Middle East. The disclosure came as Western 1 diplomats at U.N. headquarters 1 cautiously predicted that Israel ■ will withdraw its troops from 1 Egypt as a result of U.S. support of its claim to free navigation in ‘ the Gulf of Aqaba. Non-InterferencePoUcy According to the Moscow dis- ’ patches, the Soviet Union called ’ on’Britain, France and the Uiufci States to join with Russia In a policy of non-interference, mutuil 1 economic aid, a promise to maintain peace and agreement not to ;. organize military blocs in the ' Middle East or supply Mideast ! countries with arms. . However, these were coupled with a proposal for the Big Four to liquidate military bases and withdraw troops from the Mideast. , Russia does not have any known bases or troops in the Middle East while the United States and Britain have several strategic bases. Just what effect the Soviet notes will have on the current efforts to get Israel out of Egypt was not immediately evident. Diplomats said they appeared aimed more at the long range problem of the Middle East rather than the immediate stumbling blocks. Four Motorists Pay Traffic Fines Monday Four motorists paid fines on traffic charges in city and justice of the peace courts Monday. Nora Orme, 32, of 238% West Madison street, charged with driving in the wrong lane of traffic, was fined $1 and costs in city court. Howard Almdale, 36, of Bluff-r ton, arrested last Friday for speed-, ing on state highway 124, appeared in J. P. court and was fined $1 and costs. Also fined $1 and costs for speeding were John P. Lerche of Kokomo and Richard Ross of Decatur. , Motorcyclist Hurt In Monday Mishap Two Arrested After Collision On 27 An Indianapolis motorcyclist sustained injuries in an accident on U. S. highway 27 at the Winchester i road intercestion south of Decatur at 5:45 p.m. Monday. Orville Lee Berry, Jr., 24, of Indianapolis was taken to the Adams county memorial hospital suffering ' possible head and internal injuries ! after his motorcycle was struck by a Car driven by Saul A. Cohn, 57. of Chicago. Both vehicles were travelling south. Berry started to pass a large truck just as Cohn began to pass 'the motorcycle. The truck was not involved. > i Only minor damage was caused to the vehicles, $75 to the car and $lO to the cycle, and both drivers were charged with improper passing. Cohn appeared in justice of ■ the peace court and was fined $1 and costs. The accident was investigated by state police and members of the sheriff’s department.

Big Crowd Hears famous Humorist Soil Conservation Dinner Is Sell-Out A crowd Os 326 persons heard Barton Rees Pogue speak on ‘Conservation of a Good Sense of Humor” at the Third Annual soil conservation district banquet at the Decatur Youth and Community Center last night. Herman Bulmahn, of Root township, was re-elected district supervisor over Hugo Boerger in the business session. Ben Gerke, chairman of the district supervisors, introduced Elmer W. Baumgartner, B e r n e banker, who acted as master of ceremonies. Area soil conservationists from Allen and Wells county were introduced as guests, and several regional SCS personnel were also presented. Plaques denoting honorary membership in the soil conservation district were awarded to Dan Tyndall, of Krick-Tyndall company, for paying the organizatioins state dues, and to Forrest Tucker, of the Farm Bureau Co-op, for paying the National dues. A chicken dinner was served to the guests by the ladies of St. Peters Lutheran church. Before the dinner, Rev. John Mishler of Pleasant Dale Church of the Brethren gave the invocation. t Entertainment was furnished ’by the For quartet Bf Harttorß township and Berne. They sang several songs, including “Goodbye, My Coney Island Baby,;’ “Mood Indigo BlueS,” “Dry Bones” and “Old Man River.” Barton Rees Pogue, well known Hoosier humorist who has spoken in 19 states, and is a former professor of English at Indiana University, kept the crowd in good spirits with jokes and poems. (Coatluned on Pace Five) Civic Music Group Set March Concert Membership Drive Plans Discussed The Englekinder, a family musical group, will present the next concert of the Adams county civic music association Tuesday, March 5. at 8 p.m., at the Decatur Youth and Community Center. A unique family from the Austrian Alps, the family includes the parents and seven children ranging in age from five through 18. Their program will include the presentation of folk and art songs on forty different instruments. They are in America for the first time this season. Plans for the concert were discussed at a meeting of the association's executive committee Monday night at the Community Center. Students from Adams Central high school will serve as ushers for the March concert. Announcement was also made that, in response to many requests arrangements are being made to raise the stage several inches to improve the view of those who sit in the back of the auditorium. ( The association has also made arrangements for members to re- j new their memberships in the as- ' sociation on the night of the con- ■ cert. The deadline for renewal will be Friday, March 8, which is near the end of preparation week of the i annual membership drive. Any memberships hot renewed by that date will be sold in the 1 open membership campaign which begins March 11. Only a total of ’ 1,000 memberships will be available. Persons who do not have 1 memberships this year and who ; wish to join the__association for : next season are urged to contact , the prospect chairman, Mrs. Dan : Tyndall. All those on the prospect ; list will be contacted when the op- ' en membership drive begins. Headquarters for the member- . ship campaign will be the Community Center in Decatur and,the , Berne Witness office in Berne. Mrs. Ed Eichenberger of Berne , will serve as prospect chairman i for that community. <

End Os Power Problem Seen Within A Year I& M Man Tells _ Industrial Group Contract Set Within a year Decatur’s critical power supply situation should be completely corrected if plans of the city and Indiana and Michigan Power company do not hit unforeseen -snags. - ■ This was the opinion of Calvin J. Hill of Fort Wayne, a representative of I & M who spoke to members of the industrial division of the Chamber of Commerce at their noon luncheon meeting Monday. Hill, accompanied by Clarence Osha, also of Fort Wayne, discussed the contract which will bring I & M power into the city of Decatur. Hill stated that the company has already begun construction of the lines necessary to bring the electrical power to the city limits. He estimated that by late summer or early fall the company would be able to supply emergency power immediately in the event of a breakdown of municipal generating equipment. The Indiana-Michigan man assured Decatur’s industrial leaders that, in the event of a longtenrf breakdown before that time, I & M promises rapid action to bring in as high as 6,000 K.W. within two or three days as emergency assistance to the city, The contract negotiated between the city and the company, according to Hill, calls for a 7,000 K. peak demand. The city must pay for at least 75 percent or a little more than 5,000 K.W. If and when the city’s demand exceeds the 7,000 K.W., a new maximum demand will be established as well as a new minimum. Hill stated that lines are being constructed that will be able to distribute as high as 15,000 K.W. to the city. He pointed out that the company estimates the city of Decatur will reach a power demand of 15,000 by 1963 or 1964 at which time another line will be installed to increase One K.W. capacity to 40,000. The company's aim is to be able to supply the demand even ] when one line is out of use. Hill stated that I & M would probably be able to supply power before the city is ready to accept it. The city must build a substation and transmission lines to the distribution system. No exact estimate is available at this time on the cost of the (Contlßued ob Pace Five) Deborah K. Teeple Killed In Accident Child Dies Monday Os Fractured Neck Deborah Kay Teeple, three-year-old grand-daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. S. Welker of 615 Indiana street, was killed in an automobile accident Monday two miles east of Scottsburg on state highway 56. The child was a passenger in a car driven by her step-father, Lee Girod of .Scottsburg route three. The Girod car was passing a truck when it hit the berm and went out of control. ,* . The vehicle overturned and Deborah was thrown out suffering a fractured neck which caused her death. Girod and two brothers and sister of the child escaped serious injury. The girl was born in Decatur May 11, 1953, to Albert Teeple and Dorothy Welker Teeple Girod. Surviving are her parents, her step-father, two brothers and a sister and her maternal grandparents. Funeral services will be conducted Thursday in Decatur but arrangements have not been completed. Friends may call at Zwick funeral home after 7 o’clock this evening.

Handley Plans To Air Tax Ideas Will Wait Budget Bill's Approval b..wUPI2A Feb. 12 gm 900a INDIANAPOLIS (UP)— Governor Handley late Monday said he would appear before a joint session of the Indiana General Assembly with his tax program after the House has passed the biennial budget bills. ‘ Handley declined to tell a news s conference what his program f would be. But he said “it will i not be a hodge-podge and will not - be a sales tax.’ He reaffirmed his opposition to i a sales tax because “it would not - raise enough revenue” He said -a three per cent sales tax would f raise only 144 million dollars ant nually and a three per cent tax . exempting food and clothing would raise only 114 million. , “I’ll never sign a sales tax bill ' that will not exempt food and , clothing,” the governor said. ; Handley said he still favors re- ’ peal of the 15-cent state property tax, but would recommend about one cent continue to go to the ’ state to keep the State Tax Board 1 in control. Asked why all the confusion in ’ the Legislature over tax pro ' posals, Handley said “we haven’t • been faced with the imperative t need” for new money before. He j ■ termed this the “first financial crisis” in recent years. - Handley also announced several - appointments. . Edwin Steers, Sr., was named > to take the place of Wing Emison » on the State Election Board. ■ Emison, of Vincennes, was reap- - pointed to the Flood Control and Water Resources Commission. - Norval Martin of Lafayette was , named to replace Dr. B.W. John- > son of Princeton as executive t secretary of the teachers’ retiret ment board. : Joliet, 111., Police Hold Decatur Man Ortiz Questioned On Recent Murder 1 A Decatur man is being held for questioning by Joliet, Hl., police in connection with a murder case there. Louie Ortiz, whose wife resides here, is being held on suspicion of murder. Information received here today from the Joliet Herald News indicated that Ortiz was one of three men who were given lie detector tests by authorities there. The three were known to have lived with or visited 72-year-old Edward H. Warner who was brutely beaten to death with a rock in his attic apartment in Joliet. Warner's body was discovered Friday morning near his bed. The body was "buried” under clothing, bureau drawers and newspapers piled two feet deep. His head had been severly injured by the savage beating. Joliet police, who suspect robbery to be the murder motive, apprehended Ortiz along with two other men for questioning. Death, according to the autopsy report, is believed to have occurred sometime Wednesday night. Ortiz told Joliet authorities that he was in Decatur Wednesday night. Investigation at the request of the Joliet authorities by local police indicates that- Ortiz arrived here at his home at about 11 p.im and then left with a man known' only as “Eddy” at about 3 a.m. Thursday. The murdered man was a bachelor and a printer by trade. No statement had. been released this' morning by Joliet police concerning results of the lie detector test or of questioning of the Decatur man. Associated Church Meeting Is Thursday The Associated Churches of Decatur will meet Thursday evening at 7:30 o’clock, at the Zion Evangelical and Reformed church. All members are urged to attend.

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Proponents To Try Again To Gain Support Two Members Os Committee Are Not Present BULLETIN* INDIANAPOLIS (UP) — A Hoose committee chopped nearly 10 million dollars off the proposed biennial budget for ' Indiana state colleges and universities today while Republican tax policy makers argued over whether to keep the gross income tax or ditch it in favor of a sales tax. By SAM NEWLUND United Press Staff Correspondent INDIANAPOLIS (UP)— One of two “right to work” bills in the Indiana Legislature was firmly entrenched in committee today but its sponsors refused to give up hope. Rep. Earl Buchanan (R-Indian-apolis), chairman of the House Labor Committee, said the controversial measure banning union shop labor contracts can come , for a -committee vote again. It, ;was kept in committee on toe first showdown by a 6-5 vote. Two members of the 15-man cornmittee were absent when the vote was taken late Monday, toST* I two others abstained. A second i vote could be a reversal of the first sending the bill to the House floor for an expected floor fight. The bill's co-sponsors. Republican Arthur Atwell, Anderson, and Democrat David R. Thayer, Hope, said they were not .discouraged by the close vote. The committee met as the Senate wound up the last day for introduction of bills and resolutions with a record of 90. Total bill production for the two houses was 955, well ahead of predictions, but far behind the record of more than 1,300 set in 1913. Bill Recommitted Another “right to work” bill languished in the Senate Labor Committee. Most nose counts showed the measure would have a tougher time in the upper chamber. The Senate recommitted for amendments a bill to permit 60day suspension of drivers licenses, for all persons convicted of traffic violations. Suspensions now are mandatory in ome cases only. .Sen. D. Russell Bontrager (RElkhart) said passage of foe bill would create “a gestapo in the state of Indiana." He said a justice of the peace could suspend a license for a minor first offense. The House Committee on Cities and Towns approved 8-3 a "home rule” amendment to the state constitution. It calls for referendums to allow communities to choose their own form of government, including the city manager form. Train Bill Opposed The Senate defeated 28-18 a bill to repeal a law requiring certain passenger trains to stop at all county seats. Sen. Warren Martin (D-Clarksville) said this would mean passengers in his county would have to cross the Ohio River to Louisville to board a train. Sen. Roy Conrad (R-Monticello), said it might affect his constituents by ending service at Monon, Frankfort, Delphi, and Monticello. New Senate bills included one by Paul Boyle (D-Sullivan) and David Rogers (D-Bloomington) to liberalize workmen’s compensation. It would raise weekly benefits for injured workers from $33 to $42, hike death benefits from $12,000 to $15,000, extend (Coßtißßea Pace Five) Overheated Furnace Causes No Damage No damage was caused this morning when the furnace at the home of Charles D. Rhoades at 716 Line street became overhest- - ed. The Decatur fire department was called at 6:30 a. m. and members of the department were back at the station by 6:40 a. m.