Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 42, Decatur, Adams County, 19 February 1957 — Page 1

Vol. LV. No. 42.

ROYAL COUPLE REUNITED

PORTUGUESE Foreign '’Affairs Minister, Prof. Paulo Cunha (left), greets Queen Elizabeth II in Lisbon on her arrival by plane from London for reunion with her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh (right), and the start of the Royal Couple’s state visit to Portugal.

Hint GOP May , Approve 1.5 Cent Gas Hike Hint Republicans May Lower Present Planned Tax Hike INDIANAPOLIS (UP) — A hint was in the air today that the Repnblican -majority Id the influential Indiana Senate might approve a 1.5-cent gasoline tax increase instead of a 2 cents a gallon. Sen. Roy Conrad (R-Monticello) said he may introduce an amendment to the 2-cent bill already passed by the House, calling for a 1.5-cent increase. Conrad said he has the amendment ready but isn’t sure whether he will introduce it. The hint of a downward revision in the proposed tax came as the tax increase bill was removed from the second-reading calendar in the Senate for the second day in a row. Senate Republicans caucused this morning and discussed the bill. But instead of voting to go along with It, they decided to take no action until they have heard statements by officials of the State Highway Department, ,« including chairman John Peters. Another Caucus Set Conrad said the caucus decided to invite Peters and others in his department to appear at another caucus Wednesday morning. Observers believed it sentiment had crvstallized in favor of the 2-cent hike, GOP senators would not be delaying a stand on the issue. Meanwhile, .a compromise plan to put Indiana on “fast" time for cnly three summer months each year was advanced as a possible solution td* the time muddle. The Senate also moved from second reading to a final showdown three bills would would require primaries instead of party conventions in advance of town elections, create a commission to study justices of peaces, and restore license plates on the fronts of motor vehicles. The JP study commission measure moved forward without any efforts to amend it. However, the Senate adopted an las amendment by Sen. Warren Martin (D-Clarksville) to exempt (Contlnned oa Pare Five) ■p > Chavez Infant Dies x Early This Morning Mary Ellen Chavez, two-month-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Chavez, died at 4:30 a.m. today at the home, 727 North 11th street, following an illness of four days. The child was born in Decatur Dec. 1. and was a member of St. Mary's Catholic church. Surviving in addit’nn to the parents are a brother, Hilary,, and six sisters, Ana Marie, Yolanda. Meriadel Carmen, Mary Jane, Juliet and Martha. Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday at. St. Mark’s Catholic church, the Very Rev. J. J. Seimetz officiating. Burial will be in the Catholic cemetery. Friends may call at the Gillig & Doan funeral home after 6 o’clock this evening until time of the services. .

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

Committee Divided Over Farm Program Democrats Plan To Jam Bill Through BULLETIN WASHINGTON «B -r- T h e House Agriculture Committee by a close vote today approved a Democratic plan calling for vast expansion in soil bank payments to farmers for taking land out of production. WASHINGTON * (UP) — Hodse ■ Democratic farm leaders pre- • pared today to jam a controversial ' program of soil bank benefits for grain growers through the sharply divided House Agriculture Com- ' mlttee. Both Democrats and Republicans . J agreed the result would probably 1 be a party-line fight when the measure rea’ches the House floor. Democrats said they were still hoping GOP farm bloc leaders would offer to compromise in a showdown meeting of the Demo-cratie-eontrolled Agriculture Committee today. But Rep. August H. Andresen (R-Minn), ranking Republican member of the committee, said he would "stand firm” against the Democratic plan. Other committee Republicans have been almost solid in their support of Andresen on the issue. Andresen said when the bill reaches the House floor he will ask the House to discard it in favor ; of his own measure. That bill deals , only with planting allotments and , soil bank benefits for corn growth within the 24-state “commercial" growing area. Rep. W.R. Poage (D-Tex), vice chairman of the Agriculture Committee and one of the sponsors of the Democratic bill, said Democrats were willing to compromise on details of file measure including soil bank payment rates for corn and other grains. But Poage said if the Republicans refuse to compromise “we’ll write the bill ourselves.” (Continued on Page Two Slightly Hurt As Train Hits Car Two Children Are Slightly Injured Patricia Eloph, 3, and Richard Eloph, 5, the children of Mrs. Shirley Eloph, 24, of 1710 West Madison street, sustained slight injuries at 12:10 p. m. today when the <ar in which they were riding was hit by a train at the Elm street crossing of the Pennsylvania railroad company. Mrs. Eloph, driver of the car, was headed east on Elm street. The police report indicated that as she approached the crossing her view of the tracks was blocked by box cars parked close to the crossing. She proceeded onto the tracks and the car was hit by a slow moving freight train. Engineer of the train was W. J. McCajpie ' of Fort Wayne. Hie children were taken to the Adams county memorial hospital suffering bruises and lacerations. They are being held for observation. Mrs. Eloph was hot injured. Damage to the car was estimated at $l5O and the train was ] not damaged.

Ike To Meet With Leaders On Sanctions To Meet Wednesday With Congressmen On Israel Action WASHINGTON (UP) -Secretary of State John Foster Dulles said today that. President Eisenhower will discuss with congressional leaders Wednesday the question of sanctions against Israel if she refuses to withdraw her forces from Egyptian territory. President Eisenhower flew back from Thomasville, Ga., where he cut short a vacation to deal with the Middle Eastern situation. He expected to confer with Dulles shortly after his arrival this afternoon, and will meet with Democratic and Republican congressional leaders Wednesday. Dulles would not say whether the administration now favors sanctions against Israel if she does not comply with'a United Nations resolution calling for withdrawal of Jewish troops from the Gaza Strip and the Gulf of Aqaba. Dulles said the sanctions issue will be discussed in what he called an open - minded way— along with other Middle Eastern problems. Dulles told an overflow news conference that the United States still hopes Israel will change its mind and withdraw its forces. MORE MORE MORE Israeli Ambassador Abba Eban leaves New York today for Jerusalem to report on the stalemated U.S.-Israeli negotiations for withdrawal of the Jewish occupation forces. May Ge to U.N. Dulles said he hoped Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., chief American U.N. delegate, would be in Washington for the Dulles-Eisen-hower talk this afternoon and the conference with congressional leaders Wednesday. The secretary said it is possible that after these two meetings the United States might go to the United Nations with a progyam of is own. But he said this government has not decided whether to take die initiative in 'any UN. action resulting from Israeli defiance. —Said the United States would deplore any move by Egypt to delay opening of the Suez Canal. He suggested that any such action would be in violation of a Nov. 2 United Nations resolution. —Said he expects the United States will send an American ship through the Straits of Tiran, linked with the Gulf of Aqaba, and that he does not expect American ships to be stopped. Israel has demanded assurance that her shipping will be free to use this water route to the Red Sea. But Dulles said the, United States cannot guarantee protection to ships frying other flags unless it has advance approval by Congress or treaty rights to do so. Asked whether the United States would shoot its way through the Straits of Tiran, the secretary said he did not anticipate such a continPolio Fund Total Is Now $6,178.15 More Reports Add To Total Os Fund The total on the 1957 March of Dimes now stands at $6,178.15, according to a report released today by fund treasurer, Herman H. Krueckeberg. The previous total was $5,033.27 and since that day the amount was reported, another $1,144.88 has been turned in to the treasurer. Krueckeberg stated that the new total is still not complete and that reports are still expected from several solicitors and organizations throughout the county. He urged all campaign workers and donors to turn in their contributions as soon as possible so that a complete report could e complied in the near future. The drive ended officially Jan. 31. The new ttotal includes $324.38 brought in by the Berne Mothers March. Other Berne contributions ipclude Berne schools, $118.89; Berne cannisters, $75.65; Berne Boy Scout projects, $129.51; Berne Girl Scout projects, $86.31; Berne American Legion auxiliary, $5. Other amounts reported recently are Pleasant Mills school, $24.50; Pleasant Mills farmers institute, $14.19; children of the Pleasant Mills Methodist church, $5; Washington township, east, by Mrs. Clarence Mitchel, $20.20; Rotary club fines, $4.50. Geneva additional, by Mrs Irene Sprunger, $165.92; Decatur Mothers March additional, $3; St. Paul Lutheran school additional, $1; March of Dollars at Holthouse Drug store additional, $2; Mdnroe township Good Neighbors- club by Mrs. Kermit Yoder, $162.43, and Decatur high school additional, $2.40.

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House Votes Tentative Approval To Indiana’s Biennial Budget Bill r z >

: Federal Grant : Approved For ; Sewage Plant : $250,000 Federal Grant Is Approved J For Sewage Plant j The city of Decatur was notifin , today that the department <Jr health, education and welfare has ; approved a federal grant of $250,- ; 000 towards the building of the i $1,176,000 trickling filter sewage disposal system. Mayor Robert Cole received a 1 telegram from Senator Homer E. ’ Capehart informing him of the de--1 cision. A telegram from Congressman E. Ross Adair, who had 1 corresponded with the city on the problem of aid, was received by the Decatur Dally Democrat. City attorney John DeVoss stats ed that the city would proceed as ! soon as official word was received - from the department of health, • education and welfare. A contract with the agency will be sent , to the city, including the neces- ; sary specifications. In order Jo j receive the grant, the buildigg j contract must be led by July 1. “ . Decatur received the majumtim > amount that can be received under the law. The $250,000 is* almoht . one-quarter of the total amount of federal stream pollution abatement aid available to Indiana this 1 year. Originally 21 cities had ask- • ed for federal aid, but only 12 had ; been certified to the federal agen1 cy as urgent cases. There is SL»! 2 027,000 available in Indiana this I year from the $40,000,000 national 1 appropriation. > The city was originally mandat- ' , ed in 1944 to build the sewage dis-, I posal unit. Because of the war 1 then in progress, and the short-' ! ages immediately following, thenj ' the Korean conflict, building of the ■ disposal plant was delayed for 13 ’ years. 1 City officials were generally jubilant over the maximum grant (Coatiaucd oa Pace Five) I ' Paul Schmidt Wins Oratorical Contest Wins County Contest Sponsored By Legion Paul Schmidt, son of the Rev. and Mrs. Edgar P. Schmidt, won the county American Legion oratorical contest for the second consecutive year. The contest was i held Monday afternoon at the Decatur High school. Schmidt won over Ronald Bittner, son of Mr. and JMrs. Alton C. Bittner, of route 2, in a very close contest. Edward F. Jaberg, i of American Legion Post 43, and county chairman of the event, moderated the program. The Adams county bar association cooperates with the Legion in sponsoring the event. Schmidt was coached by Deane T. Dor win, speech teacher at De- - catur high school. Schmidt worn both the Legion and Rotary contests last year. As first prize he received sls. The speeches, which covered the I United States constitution and attendant duties of citizens towards the constitution, were between 10 and 12 minutes in length. Runner-up Bittner, who attends Monmouth high school, and was - coached by his speech teacher, Mrs. Hugh J. Andrews, received $lO. The winner will now be certified to the American Legion headquar- • ters in Indianapolis. A district contest will be held before March 8. pinners in the fourth and fifth districts, comprising zone two, will then have an elimination before March 15, and the state contest will be held March 22. The state winner will then attend a , national contest. In the district and higher events, an extemporaneous speech, four to . six minutes in length, must be delivered on one of 12 subjects.

Noah Sleury Speaks At Joint Meeting Decatur Industries Founder Is Speaker Between $5 and $6 million has been brought to Decatur by Decatur Industries in. the last 14 years, Noah Steury, founder of the company, told a joint meeting of the Lions and Rotary clubs Monday night at the JTouth and Community Center. 1 I Steury told how the industry started during the second World War when his job as salesman for the Wayne Novelty company did not keep him busy. He started in his garage with an invalid cousin as his helper. His wife did the ; packing. The business now averages 50 employes, and is planning to ex- i pand its facilities as soon as pos- 1 sible. Many women and mature ’ persons who would find it difficult ' to get a job with big industry are 1 hired by the company. In addition to the music boxes for which the company is famous, 1 wooden office accessories, trophy 1 bases, pipe racks, cigar humidors ' and other small wooden items are made. They are sold in all parts of the United States, and exported to Canada, Mexico, South America, 1 and even to Switzerland. The wooden bases for trophies for Lions International are made ■ by. the company, and assembled here in Decatur. ’ Tj Steury was born on a farm between Monroe and Berne, but bis father sent him off to town to work, telling him that he was too small to ever be a good farmer. He worked in Berne for a while ■ before going with Wayne Novelty; (Continued on Pare Kight) I Buy Pickup Truck For Highway Dept ■ I Contract Awarded By Commissioners The contract on the purchase of a pickup truck for the Adams coun- [ ty highway department was awarded by county commissioners Monday to Schwartz Ford Motor company. Ford’s bid of $1,270 was low among the five bids submitted. The others considered by the commissioners were Butler’s Garage,) sl,331.67; Decatur Equipment (International Harvester), $1,459; Saylors Chevrolet, $1,495. and Macklin’s (Dodge), $1,499.55. Following the regular commissioners meeting, the group reconvened immediately as the county board of finance to determine points of deposit of county funds. The county funds will be distribz uted among the three banks of the county on a basis determined by .the total assets of each bank. Os the total county fund, 52 percent will be deposited in the First State Bank of Decatur, 37 percent in the First Bank of Berne and 11 .percent in the Geneva bank. Funds of the county clerk's office, not included in the general fund, will be deposited, as in previous years, at the First State Bank of Decatur. The county commissioners traveled to Celina, 0., today to meet with Mercer county, 0., commissioners on a joint interstate ditch which is located in Mercer county and in Jefferson township of Adams county. A petition to repair this ditch was filed with the commissioners Jan. 7 S * .. : Wednesday the commissioners plan to go to Anderson to inspect • a drag line. A drag line is to be purchased for the county survey- : or’s department. Bids on the item , will be accepted Feb. 28 by the f commissioners. , INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy north, mostly , cloudy south tonight and Wednesday. Snow flurries near Lake Michigan. Colder south < tonight Low tonight 12-18 ; north, 18-25 south. High Wed- j nesday 25-32 north, 32-38 south. Sunset 6:26 p. m., sunrise Wednesday 7:32 a. m. 1

Senate Debate Is Opened On Ike Doctrine Accuses Democrats Os Irresponsible Doctrine Attacks WASHINGTON (UP)-Sen. H. Alexander Smith today accused some Democrats of making “destructive and irresponsible assaults” on the Eisenhower Doctrine and of casting “irresponsible reflections” on the integrity of Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. The New Jersey Kepublican, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said “such attacks. . .only tend to diffuse and confuse.. .1 do not believe that they represent constructive, responsible cooperation." Smith's statements were contained in a speech prepared for delivery this afternoon in the first round of Senate debate on the President’s Middle East resolution. The Senate originally had been scheduled to start its debate Monday afternoon, but a wrangle over provisions of an appropriations bill forced a postponement in taking up the Middle East resolution. r Chairman Theodore Francis Green (D-RD, who was to open today’s debate with a speech in advance of Smith’s, released the text of his remarks to the press Monday. Both Smith and Green strongly urged approval of the President’s i resolution as it has been 'modified by the Democratic-controlled Foreign Relations and Armed Services committees. Mr. Eisenhower has said he would accept the Democratic changes. Senate leaders of both parties have predicted that the Presi- 1 dent’s resolution would be adopted by the Senate by a wide margin in substantially its present form. But Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson (Tex) estimated that debate probably will take about two weeks. Monroe Town Hall Sold Monday Nighl Monroe Planning To ' Erect New Building The bid of John J. Schwartz, Jr., Amish farmer living near Monroe, on the town hall and fire department building in Monroe was accepted by the Monroe town council last night. The bid was $75. The heating system of the building, consisting of two stoves, was sold for $25 to Brice Fisher. » There were three bids on the building and two on the heating plant. The bids were opened by the Monroe town board in a special meeting at 9:30 o’clock last night. The building, approximately 20 feet by 60 feet, must be moved from the lot by March 15. Originally used as a restaurant, it also served as a bicycle shop before it was converted into a .town hall. A new 34 by 72 foot brick building will be constructed to house the new fire truck, old truck, a water wAgon which will belong to the rural fire company, and the city utility truck, there will also be a meeting room. Both Schwartz and Jacob Shetler entered bids of $75. The council was undecided on which should receive the bid, so rather than be unfair to either party, a coin was flipped, and Schwartz won the toss. August Wicke also entered a bid of $25. Besides the Fishe'r bid of $25 on the heating plant, the Shell brothers had also bid S2O. It is hoped that the new building can be completed soon after the arrival of the new firetruck, which is expected about the first of May. The town board hopes to have it completely paid for by the end of the year. * - ‘ »:

Offers Compromise On Slate Time Issue Suggests Fast Time In Summer Months INDIANAPOLIS (UP)-A compromise plan to put Indiana on "fast" time for tauly three summer months each year was advanced today as a possible solution to Hoosierland’s clock and watch muddle. Sen. Arthur S. Wflaon (D-Prince-ton), who favors year-round "slow” time, proposed the "9-3” plan to reconcile differences between time plans approved by House and Senate. The Senate last week passed a bill calling for a "half and half* time schedule, with the entire state on Central Standard Time for six winter months and on Daylight Saving Time for six summer months. Next day, the House passed a bill calling for year-round Central Standard Time. Schools Wouldn’t Switch Wilson was named to sponsor the House bill on its trip through the Senate. He probably would be chosen for a conference committee to iron out Senate-House differences in the event one is necessary. Wilson said his nine months “slow” and three months "fast” plan would keep schools from having to switch time because tile DST period would be observed , during months when schools were in vacation. Also in the Senate today, Wilson made a floor speech deploring the shooting of a baby in a house trailer at Oakland City last week. Wilson arose to speak after Sen. Keith Fraser (R-Portland) accused minority Democrats ■in another speech with being the "handmaiden of labor bosses.” Wilson said he resented the statement and denied Democrats were "tools of labor bosses.” He deplored violence surrounding the Princeton strike of a machinists union against an electrical relay manufacturing plant and said he was indignant that any “good” would do such a thing as shoot into a trailer where an innocent baby lay sleeping. Christian Nuerge Funeral Thursday Funeral services for Christian Nuerge, of near Ossian, who died Monday morning, will be held at 1:30 p.m. Thursday at the Zwick funeral home and at 2 p.m. at the Bethlehem Lutheran church, the Rev. Harry Behning officiating. Burial will be In the church cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o’clock this evening, and make contributions to the church or charity, projects. Approprialions Are Approved By Slate Principal Items Are In Hospital Funds Approval of over $78,000 in additional appropriations for various county departments has been giv-' en by the state board of tax commissioners. w Official notice of the approval was received today by Ed Jaberg, county auditor. The additional appropriations were previously okayed by the county council in a special session Jan. 28 and 29. Major items on the list of approved appropriations are for building and equipment for the Adams county memorial hospital They include $36,375 in the hospital operating fund And $23,224 in the hospital building fund. Also approved was the request for an additional SIB,OOO for the county surveyor’s department to purchase a drag line. Legal advertising for bids on this item appeared in Monday’s paper. Four minor appropriations approved by the state board include S6OO for the county treasurer’s office, sl3 for the county sheriff’s office additional per diem and mileage, and $752 to purchase a stoker for the county highway garage.

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Record State Budget Passed Early Today Above Anticipated Two-Year Revenues INDIANAPOLIS (UP)- The Indiana House, in a marathon session lasting into this morning’s early hours, tentatively approved a biennial state budget 70 million dollars above anticipated revenues but postponed action on a controversial state school aid plan. Representatives endorsed most of the 20 million dollars in slashes taken at the 790 million dollar record proposed budget by the Ways & Means '‘A” Committee. But Rep. S. Paul Clay’s recommendation that school aid the next two years be frozen at the current year’s level, except for extra funds on a per-pupil basis to schools with enrollment increases, was bypassed temporarily. Clay, an Indianapolis Republican who heads the committee, said he decided not to put the school aid proposal to a test Monday night because he wanted to examine a new formula for distributing school funds which “might work better’* than the freeze plau. He refused to etabor- A ate on the new formula. Clay Says He’s rieaaed The decision to hold up action on the issue came late at night, after a day in which nearly every . House member was approached \ by dissatisfied school administra- ' tors who opposed the idea of a school aid program without provision for pay increases for teachers. Clay said he was “pleased and surprised” that the House left most of his committee's recommendations intact. Cuts of one and one-half million dollars from the mental health budget went unchallenged. Only I Rep. Birch Bayh (D-Terre Haute), minority floor leader, protested at the 9*4 million dollar slashes in funds for state universities and colleges. “This is dangerous not only on the state but on the national level,” Bayh said. “The Soviet union is nroaucing many more university graduates than we are." The only important rebuke of nating 1761,400 tor building new National Guard armories. "Can you cut needed funds from hospitals and colleges and then appropriate money to build armories?” Clay asked. He said Indiana already has 73 armories. The $761,400 was earmarked for the state’s share of construction costs for nine new armories and additions to five existing armories. Rep. George Davidson (R-Indian-a polls) said building the armories was “essential for defense.” Earlier, however, the House voted over Davidson’s objections to cut $436,00 from funds for National Guard expansion. FEPC Hike Rejected Rep. Ralph Hines (R-Portland), who has had his name on much of the veterans legislation in recent years, led a successful fight to keep in the budget direct state grants to private veterans organizations. Rep. James Hunter (D-East Chicago) moved to raise from $30,000 a year to $50,000 the appropriations for the state Fair Employment Practices Commission because “the FEPC in Indiana can do nothing except educate and with the amount of.funds it has now it can’t even do that.” Hunter’s motion was tabled, as was a subsequent move to elimi- iie , nate all FEPC appropriations. Clay said even if cuts are made in school aid in line with his recommendations the state will need 70 million dollars more from new taxes or higher existing taxes to meet the 1957-59 budget. As soon as the House suspends rules and passes the budget bills, probably before the week is over. Governor Handley is expected to appear before a joint session of House and Senate and outline a me increased expenditures.