Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 57, Decatur, Adams County, 8 March 1957 — Page 1

Vol. LV. No. 57.

GAZA CHANGES HANDS JaHSCr -- r TURNING OVER the controversial Gaza strip. Maj. Gen. Moshe Dayan (right) Chief of Staff of the Israeli Army, greets Lt. Col. Carl Engholm, Danish commander of United Nations forces in the main square of the city of Gaza.

Last Israeli Troops Pulled Out Os Egypt Final Withdrawal Os Israel Troops Completed Today By WALTER LOGAN United Press Staff Correspondent The last Israelr combat troops pulled out of Sharm El Sheikh on the Gulf of Aqaba today, completing the final withdrawal from the last bit of Egyptian territory seized during last October’s invasion. The Israelis formally turned over control of the Sharm El Sheikh enclave to a 200-man Finnish infantry company of the U.N. Emergency Forces- at 1:30 a wi. CST. Then, precisely at 10 a.m. CST, the last 150 •Israeli infantrymen boarded the frigate Iznak and headed north through the Gulf of Aqaba for the Israeli port of Eilat. Behind them they left a handful of technicians to help the UNEF establish control of the area. Before they left, they also blew up the remaining Egyptian pillboxes and gun emplacements they had occupied since the Sinai invasion. The Complete Withdrawal Maj. Gen. Moshe Dayan, Israeli chief of staff, who flew to Sharm El Sheikh to witness the withdrawal preparations this morning, watched the demolitions and commented: “What further need is there for them now?” Earlier in the day, U.N. Secre-tary-General Dag Hammarskjold reported in New York that Israel had complied fully with General Assembly demands that if get out of the Gaza Strip and the Sharm El Sheikh area. Hea nnounced that the Israelis had withdrawan all but one small troop unit at Rafah camp in the Gaza strip by 10 p.m. CST Wednesday. By agreement, he said, that last unit was to be withdrawn by 10 a.m. CST today. “Full withdrawal from the Sharm El Sheikh area would be affected at the same time,” he said. Thus, Israel has withdrawn all its troops from the last inch of Egyptian territory captured in a 100-hour war last year and now was back behind the 1949 ArabIsraeli armistice lines. The Passage Dispute UNEF forces have taken over from the Israelis at both Gaza and Sharm El Sheikh. The Israelis say that Egypt must never resume administration of the Gaza Strip and that the Gulf of Aqaba must remain oped to the shipping of all nations. - Egypt contends, however, that the UNEF force in Gaza can be ordered out* any time that Cairo wants. It also contends that the Strait of Tiran, at the southern mouth to the Gulf of Aqaba, is Egyptian territorial water and the passage of any shipping remains within Cairo’s discretion. Israel has said that if what it considers its rights at either place are violated, it reserves the right to use force again to guarantee (Continued on Page Eight) Gov. Handley Signs School Bond Measure INDIANAPOLIS ffl - Governor Handley signed into law today two measures passed by the Indiana Legislature increasing the maximum interest rate on school building holding corporation bonds and authorizing a Wabash River commercial barge channel survey. The school bond law. bearing an emergency clause which makes it effective immediately, increase the maximum interest rate from four to five per cent. It was introduced as Senate Bill 1.

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Summerfield Asks Postal Rate Boost First Class Rate Os Four Cents Sought WASHINGTON (UP)-A cordial House reception appeared likely today for the administration’s request to raise the cost of mailing a first class letter from 3 to 4 cents. But its fate appeared in doubt at the hands of the Senate which killed similar legislation last year. Postmaster General Arthur E. Summerfield Thursday requested legislation upping various postal rates which he said would bring in an additional million dollars annually by 1961. Summerfield apparently heeded the warnings of a number of congressmen and abandoned any idea of seeking a 5-cent rate for letters. House Post Office Committee sources said they assumed the Higher postal rates will be approved by the committee. The committee approved a similar bill last year and the House passed it. Summerfield's proposal would yield considerably less than the 654 million dollars a year in higher postal receipts that President Eisenhower asked for in his January budget message. The President gave nd details at that time, but postal sources said his budget request “presupposes” a’ 5-cent letter charge. The new proposal is similar to what the administration asked in 1956, except for a boost on second class mail twice the amount recommended last year. Summerfield, in an accompanying letter to Speaker Sam Rayburn (D-Tex), urged “early enactment” to the following rate increases : First class mail—From 3 to 4 cents an ounce. Postcards —From 2 cents to 3 cents each. Airmail—From 6 to 7 cents an ounce. Air postcards—From 4 to 5 cents each. Second class mail (newspapers and magazines)—Four annual increases of 15 per cent. The hikes would not apply to newspapers printing less than 5,000 copies or to publications of non-profit religious, educational, scientific, philanthropic, agricultural, labor veterans or fraternal organizations. Third class mail (advertising matter)—From 2 to 3 cents for the first 2 ounces, and from 1 to 1% cents on each additional ounce. Bulk rates would be increased from 14 to 16 cents per pound. Book rates—From 8 to 10 cents on the first pound and from 4 to 5 cents for each additional pound. Controlled circulation publications — From 10 to 12 cents an ounce. Summerfield also urged Congress to adopt a long range policy requiring the postmaster general at least every two years to submit rate adjustment proposals designed to put the post office nearer a pay-as-you-go basis. Dickerson Funeral Saturday Morning Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Hardy & Hardy funeral home in Geneva for Roe Carson Dickerson, brother of John Dickerson of this city, who died Wednesday afternoon at his home. The Rev. Harold Schram will officiate, with burial in Riverside cemetery, east of Geneva. INDIANA WEATHER Mostly cloudy tonight and Saturday. Light snow north portion late tonight and early Saturday. A little colder southeast portion tonight. Warmer south portion Saturday. Low tonight in the 20s, high Saturday 35-45. Sunset 8:44 p. m„ sunrise Saturday 7:07 a. m.

G.O.P. State Tax Policies I Are Assailed Democrats Charge Republicans Using Steamroller Tactic INDIANAPOLIS (UP) — Minority Democrats in the Indiana Legislature took the Republicans to task today for Governor Handley’s revenue • raising program. Bui GOP leaders accused them of -“making newspaper headlines.” Rep. Birch Bayh of Terre Haute House minority floor leader, charged the Republicans with “steamroller tactics" to “foist upon Hoosiers a* sorry hodge-podge of tax measures in almost indecent haste.” Bayh called them, “illformed proposals” directed at “the small taxpayer." But Rep. Robert Webb, Bayh’s Republican counterpart, said the Republicans "worked hard and long" on the program. "We do not have time here to make newspaper headlines or attempt to* advance our political careers,” Webb said. Senators Criticised, Too The criticism of the tax program was by po means limited to the House. Senate Republicans were accused of trying to “sejj the public a bijl of goods” by labelling a 50 percent boost in the gross income tax an "education tax.” Democratic efforts to head oft the increase seemed doomed. The bill was eligible for Senate passage today, and" GOP leaders said they had the strength to put it over. A bill to have the gross tax withheld from wages also headed for passage today. But another part of Governor Handley's tax plan—a net worth levy on interstate sales—limped toward second reading in the House. The House already has passed the gross and withholding bills. Net worth still must hurdle House and Senate. A 1-cent cigarette tax increase passed the House only. When the gross tax hike came up for second reading in the Senate Thursday, Sen. John Van Ness, GOP leader, moved to have the increase used solely for education, "insofar as it is practicable.” Bill x»f Goods Van Ness admitted it did not necessarily mean any more money would be spent on schools, nor that teacher salaries would be raised unless "the Legislature specifically says so.” The money yielded by the increase—about 79 million dollars a year—would go to the general fund and be allocated as usual. Van Ness said that much—and much more—would be spent on schools anyway. Sen. Warren Martin (D-Clarks-ville) implied the GOP sought to “sell the public a bill of goods” by making Hoosiers believe the increase was needed only for schools. Final Day To Renew Music Membership Open Membership Will Open Monday Today is the final day that members of the Adams county civic music association can renew their memberships for the 1957-58 season, according to a reminder issued today by Glenn Hill, association president. Any not renewed today will be turned over to the open membership campaign which opens Monday. A long list of persons who were not members of the association last year have indicated a desire to obtain one of the available memberships. The number of memberships to be sold this year will be limited to 1,000 which is the capacity of the Decatur Youth and Community Center where the association’s concerts are held. Since the demand for memberships is expected to be greater than the number available, all persons Interested, in joining the association are urged to contact the campaign headquarters at the community center as soon as possible. The open membership drive will extend to March 16 or until all of the memberships have been sold. After that date, membership is closed. Membership in the association entitles the holder to attend a series of concerts featuring artists of national and international fame. No single session tickets are sold at any of the concerts. In its initial year the association has sponsored concerts by Coattaaed o» Pac*

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Decatur, Indiana Friday, March 8, 1957

House Takes Another Whack At Monstrous Eisenhower Budget

Compromise On Time Muddle For Indiana Provides For Seven Months Slow Time, Five Months Fast , INDIANAPOLIS (UP) — Relief from Indiana’s worst headache—the time muddle—was only a throb away today as a legislative conference committee agreed on a plan for seven months of "slow” and five months of “fast.” Two senators and two represent tatives reached a compromise late Thursday. Only approval of House and Senate now is needed to send the time bill to Governor Handley for his signature. Under the plan, all of Indiana would be required to observe Daylight Saving Time from the last week in April to the last week in September. And the entire state would be required to operate on Central Standard Time the other seven months in the year. The solution was a compromise between a big bloc of lawmakers favoring year-round CST and another big bloc favoring year-round DST- The House previously. jaaWKA a bill favoring all-year CST, and the Senate a bill favoring a half-and-half solution. May Be Approved Today Observers believed the compromise would win favor in both houses today. Undisturbed in the bill after the conference committee finished with it was a clause providing fines and imprisonment for city, county or town officials who violate the law, and denying state funds to communities which ignore it. The solution, while it won’t make everybody happy by any means, ironed out one handicap the state has operated under for years—a patchwork of time zones with many inconsistencies in annual dates for switching from one time to the other. Rep. Charles H. Schenk (D-Vin-cennes) was the last conference committee member to agree to the compromise. Sens. C,W. Martin (R-Indianapolis) and Arthur Wilson (D-Princeton), and Rep. Forrest Link (R-LaPorte), approved the 7-5 split at a Thursday night meeting. Schenk agreed about an hour later. The time problem has divided Hoosierland since the 19405, CST Law Since 1949 In 1949, the Legislature enacted a law making CST the official time for Indiana. But cities and towns skirted the law by adopting resolutions urging residents to turn up their clocks an hour in summer months. They got by with it, for the law had no penalty clause. By 1955, many areas in the eastern half of the state adopted DST on a year-round basis, and Indiana was divided into two time zones delineated by a zig-zag line down the center of the state. The 1955 Legislature, sidestepping a solution, called for a voter referendum in the 1956 election. More votes were cast for CST than any other time schedule, but (Coatiatied *■ Pas* Fire)

Lenten Meditation (By Rev. Lawrence T. Norris, Union Chapel Evangelical United Brethren Church) “CHRIST BEARERS” “As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, So walk ye in Him.” — Col. 2:6. All Christians have, in profession at least, received Jesus Christ the Lord, received Him as Christ, the great prophet of the church, annotated by God to reveal His will; as Jesus the great high priest, and Saviour from sin and wrath, by the expiatory sacrifice of Himself; and as Lord, or sovereign and king, whom we are to obey and be subject to. Received Him, consented to Him, taken Him for ours in every relation and every capacity, and for all the purposes and uses of them. The great concern of those who have received Christ is to walk in Him, to make their practices conformable to their principles and their conversation agreeable to their - engagements. As we have received Christ, or consented to be His, so we must walk with Him in our daily course and keep up our communion with Him.

Initial Report On Red Cross Campaign ■ I More Committees Named For Drive X total of $1,080.93 has been yffid in the first week of the 1857 Red Cross fund drive, ac- ■ ’cording to a report issued today . by Carl Braun, fund drive chairman. • !C,'The first report of the year : came from Mrs. R. D. Jones, of Monroe township, who turned In donations amounting to $lB. Krick-Tyndall company and employes were the first industrial group to report with $58.50. Mrs. V. Miller turned in the first individual donation. Northwest elementary school was toe first school to report 100 percent enrollment. The list of contributions to date includes the national bowling match, ssl; city of Berne, $700; walk-in, $1; Mrs. Jones for Monroe township, $18; Krick-Tyndall Co., $25; Krick-Tyndall employes $33.50. Northwest school, $30.55; Decatur Casting Co., $100; Pecatur Casting employes, $40.13; Mrs. Gerald Ross for Decatur residence zone, $9.75; Mrs. Kenneth Reed for Washington township, $8.50; Mrs. Herman Liechty for Monroe 4 ..township, $14.25; Dewey Plumley lor' Union township, $8; Mrs. Robert Beery for.Preble township sll, and previous donations $28.23. Wilbur Petrie, chairman of campaign activities among Decatur businesses, has named his committees. Assisting with solicitation among retail businesses will be William Schulte, Paul Uhrick, Richard Wertzberger, Robert Lane, Robert Gay, Carl Gerber and Eugene Zimmerman. Others on the committee include Ed Jaberg, court house; Leo Kirsch, post office; W. Guy Brown Decatur schools, and Ed Kauffman, city hall. Township chairmen for 1957 include Delmar Wechter, Blue Creek; Leo E. Engle, French; Fredrick Duff, Hartford; Holman Egley, Jefferson; Lucile Beavers, Kirkland; John Peters, Preble; Mrs. C. Dennison, Monroe; Mrs. Durwood Marker, Root; Mrs. Roman Sprunger, St. Mary’s; Mrs. Joseph Heiman, Union; Erwin Bauman, Wabash, and Mrs. Floyd Mitchell, Washington. District Oratorical Contest On Tonight Paul Schmidt, son of the Rev. and Mrs. Edgar P. Schmidt, will take part in the district Legion oratorical contest at American Legion post 47, Fort Wayne this evening. Schmidt is one of five contestants from the district. Other contestants in the speech elimination contest on the constitution will be Janet Gieseking, Fort Wayne Central high school; Leola May, A*uburn high school; LaDonna Smith, Ossian school; and James Grant, Columbia City high school. A group of interested students from the Decatur high school speech class and others from the city are expected to attend the elimination.

Ike Prepares To Sign Bill For Doctrine Special Mission To Explain Doctrine For Wfle East WASHINGTON (UP)—President Eisenhower today prepared to sign his Middle East doctrine and immediately dispatch a special mission to the Middle East to explain it. Special Ambassador James P. Richards, head of the presidential mission, said he expected to leave Tuesday to visit possibly as many as 18 nations. At the same time, U.S. officials prepared plans for issuing a declaration that the United States regards the Gulf of Aqaba and the Strait of Tiran as an international waterway open to all nations including IsraeL S. Takes Lead The United States told Israel during the talks to get Israeli troops withdrawn from Egypt that the United States would take the lead in declaring the Gulf of Aqaba leading to the Israeli port of Elath 4n open Waterway. The President was expected to sign the Congress-approved doctrine resolution as soon as possible after it reaches the White House from Capitol Hill. The House gave overwhelming final congressional approval. to the doctrine Thursday in a smashing 350-60 roll call vote. Richards, Ike To Confer Richards, former Democratic chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said he expected to meat with the President before leaving for the Middle East. His job will be to explain the purposes of the doctrine to Middle East leaders and sound them out on their need of possible economic and military aid under the doctrine’s aid provisions. ' Richards will explain to Middle East leaders that the fight-if-we-must doctrine aimed at possible Communist aggression would be applied only if a nation attacked asked for U.S. troops. Only Thursday night in Jordan Premier Suleiman Nabulsi was reported to have told his associates that he would not receive the Riehards mission. But earlier, Jordan King Hussein said he welcomed the pending visit. Egypt remained officially silent but cool regarding the doctrine. Syria was openly opposed.

Respond To Pleas To Assist Family Generous Response To Guerra Family Decatur residents have responded generously to the appeal by the Red Cross for aid to the Jose Guerra family, whose possessions were destroyed Wednesday by fire. Mrs. Wanda Oelberg, executive secretary of the Red Cross, stated that'the family has been given much clothing, including a layette for the baby who will be born in a few days. She added that there is still a need for underclothing and beddtag. Also needed is furniture and a place to put it. The Red Cross is trying to locate a house to serve as a temporary residence for the family. The Guerras include five children and their mother and father. They are residing now with the Adam Equia family of nine. Jose Guerra started to work Monday for the first time this winter, so it will be a few days before he has any money at all. The Red Cross has also obtained a supply of food and milk for the Guerra youngsters. Any person who wishes to donate something to the family is asked to contact the Red Cross office.

Heads Rotary Robert Smith Robert Smith Heads Decatur Rotarians Attorney Is Named President Os Club Robert Smith, prominent Decatur attorney, was elected president of the Decatur Rotary club at the annual election of officers, held durt'e the weekly dinner meeting "it the service club Thursday evening at the Youth and Community Center. Smith, a member of the law firm of Custer & Smith, will succeed Joe Kaehr, of Butler’s garage, when new officers are installed July 1. Other officers are: Gail M. Grabill, county school superintendent, vice president; H. P. Schmitt, Jr., of the H. P. Schmitt Packing Co., secretary; Dr. Ralph Allison, veterinarian. treasurer; J. Ward Calland and Carl Gerber, directors. Indoctrination ceremonies were held for three new members Os the club, with Gene Rydell presiding. Biographies of the new members were given by Clarence Ziner. Tom Allwein and Rydell. The new members are. Charles Buher, furniture retailer; Jack Chappell, of the Central Soya Co., and Howard Evans, farming. The indoctrination discussioin was given by the ReV. William C. Feller. Smith, the president-elect, presented a classification talk on general law practice, with Harry Maddox as chairman of the program. Eisenhower Fights Troublesome Cold Cough Improving, Fights Head Cold WASHINGTON (IP) -r- President Eisenhower probably will go to Florida about the middle of next week for sun and exercise to combat a lingering head cold and cough, the White House said today. White House Press Secretary James C. Hagerty said Mr. Elsenhower hopes and expects to get away to Florida five or six days before going to Bermuda Inarch 20 for his scheduled conference with British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. The conference with Macmillan opens March 21, and Hagerty saM he expects the President to fly to Bermuda directly from Florida March 20. Mr. Eisenhower is being treated with antibiotic drugs for his cold and a resultant slight inflammation of the eustachian tube of his left ear. Hagerty said the President’s cough seemed to be “a little better” this morning. But he still has a slight ear inflammation and head cold. Hagerty said he does not expect a decision on the precise departure time and destination in ; Florida before Monday. Mr. Eisenhower will not be ac- ; companied either to Florida or ; Bermuda by Mrs. Eisenhower. The President’s ear was packed ( (Coatlauad *a Pas* Fir*)

Committee Os House Chops At Record Budget Ike's Top Budget Officer Assailed By House Group WASHINGTON (UP)—The House Appropriations Committee today took a third Whack at President Eisenhower’s “monstrous” budget and assailed his top budget officer for apparently being "unacquainted with the budget of his own agency.” The Democrr tic-controlled committee, approving a spending bill for the Wuite House and assorted minor agencies, chopped $4,805,500 out of the President’s requests—a reduction of 23 per cent. . The economy-minded committee previously has recommended—and the House has approved—a 2 per cent cut in funds for the Treasury i and Post Office departments and ; a 12 per cent reduction in money to run the Interior Department. In dollars, these reductions totalled only about sl4l million. Democrats Plan Hearings Other developments in the budget,, cutting picture: —Some congressmen warned -. President Eisenhower that unless he stops talking budgets cuts some of his major legislation will be killed off in a snowballing congressional economy drive. —House Democrats announced they will hold hearings on a resolution calling on the President to junk the record peacetime budget of $71.8 billion he has sent to Congress and submit a new one not exceeding S6O billion by April 15. —A United Press spot survey of federal agencies turned up no evidence that they are considering any cuts in their budgets now before Congress. The check was made after Mr. Eisenhower told his news conference Thursday he had ordered a new review of federal spending plans to see if reductions can be made. Part of today’s House committee cut was aimed at the Budget Bureau which authored the President’s record budget for the new fiscal year. Report Blasts Brundage . In a report to the House the committee charged that die Budget Bureau was permitting its own payroll, as well as those of other agencies, to climb above the levels authorized by Congress in money bills for the current year. The report said Budget Director Percival F. Brundage, under questioning, appeared unaware that projected employment in the Budget Bureau was to exceed the specified levels. “Already dismayed at the monstrous size of the budget for 1958, the committee was further disturbed to find that the director was apparently unacquainted with the budget for his own agency,” the committee report said. The committee gave Brundage $4.3 million of the $4.4 million he wanted for his agency, .a reduction of SIOO,OOO. It approved in full requests for $150,000 for the President’s salary, which is fixed by law, $2,051,970 for expenses of the White House offices, $1.5 million for unspecified “special projects” of the President, and $400,400 for maintenance of the White House mansion and grounds. List Many Cute It cut $320,000 out of requests for the President's Council of Economic Advisers, his National Security Council, the Office of Defense Mobilization, and his Advisory Committee on Government Organization. The committee cut the President’s national defense emergency fund from $5 million, as asked, to $1 million. The American Battle Monuments Commission got $2.5 million, a cut of $300,000; the Corregidor Battan Memorial Commission, $44,000 as requested; the Subversive Activities Control Board, which wanted $395,000, got $375,000; and the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission was cut from $635,000 to $570,000. Some House members warned the President that unless be ContlaaM mi Pace , (•• ' ...,—1 .. '

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