Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 58, Decatur, Adams County, 9 March 1957 — Page 1

Vol. LV No. 58

Halsey Fights For The “Enterprise” w ■■sraS®-i®' *^- 4 * * FLEET ADMIRAL William (Bull) Halsey, USN (Ret), dons his fivestar uniform once again for another battle—this time to save his old ship, the carrier, USS Enterprise, (background) from the scrapyard. The Navy says that the ship, which is at the Naval Supply Depot in Bayonne, N. J., is corroding and ready for the wreckers. Halsey and some 1.400 former crewmen hope to raise $350,000 to have the “Big E,” as it was called in World War 11, enshrined as a national monument.

Fear Egypt To Retain Ban On Israel Ships Cairo Dispatches Say Israel Ships Apparently Barred WASHINGTON (IP) — U.S. official said today Egypt’s, apparent new moves to bar Israeli shipping from the Suez Canal violates at least two U.N. Security Council actions. They made the statement on the basis or dispatches from Cairo that observers felt certain that Egypt would continue to bar Israeli ships from the reopened canal as it has since 1948. , U.S. officials also were concerned about the Egyptian announcement that Egypt would permit ships through the canal only if tolls were paid to Egypt. If the Egyptians bar Israeli vessels, officials said the action would violate: —The Oct. 13 adoption by the U.N. Security Council of six prinThe first of these principles prociples for operation of the canal, vides that “there shall be free and open transit through the canal without discrimination, overt and covet.” —The September, 1951, U.N. Security Council resolution that Egypt quit barring Israeli ships from the canal. Carlo dispatches said Israeli vessels apparently are barred from the canal “which so fafr is open only to ships of 500 tons or less while the canal is undergoing final clearance. But the indications were that Israeli ships of all size will be barred. Egypt has based its ban against Israeli ships in the past on the ground that Egypt and Israel have not signed a peace treaty concluding the Arab — Israeli war. Egypt has held this position despite the 1949 armistice agreement. . Launch Promotional Program On Tuesday Over 40 Retailers Support Programs LAUNCH PROMOTIONAL dL„ More than 40 local retail establishments have agreed to support the promotional projects being planned during the coming year by the retail division of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce. The promotional program will be launched with a dinner for participating employers and their employes, which will take place Tuesday at 6:30 pm, at tiie Decatur youth and Community Center. Those who, have endorsed the project have agreed to support the plans with financial contributions. The program will include all of the regular annual projects in addition to others which are designed to attract business to the city of Decatur. R. P. Mitchell, of St. Mary’s, O. will be the main speaker for Tuesday's dinner meeting. Bob Heller will serve as master of ceremonies, ■ *

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Greece Is Shaken By New Earth Tremors Thousands Homeless Following Quakes ATHENS, Greece (UP) - New earth tremors shook Greece today and the U.S. Sixth Fleet stood by off the coast to lend emergency aid if necessary. The first series of quakes that hit the east coast area of central Greece Friday left thousands homeless and today’s predawn 'tremors shook Athens itself. ; So fah only one fatality has been ■ reported. Several persons were in- ■ jured. But property damage was appalling. The government report- ' ed 3,470 homes damaged, almost * 2,000 of them severely. U. S. Ambassador George Allen ■ contacted the government for detailed information and the Sixth ■ Fleet gathering off Piraeus prepared to rush emergency aid to the stricken area if needed. The Greek military commander in Thessaly was appointed relief commander. Government forces rushed tents, medical supplies and food stocks into the area, Authorities said the relative mildness of the first shock in the quake triangle 200 miles northwest of Athens provided a warning and helped cut down the casualties. It sent villagers rushing into the streets to huddle together in a driving rain. Eleven minutes later a tremendous shock—the strongest ever to hit the Thessaly area—brought down houses and factories and (Coatlaaed oa Pane Fire) Fannie D. Nyffeler Dies Last Evening Funeral Services Monday Afternoon Mrs. Fannie Nyffeler, 74, former Adams county school teacher, and a resident of St. Mary’s township most of her life, died at 7:15 o’clck Friday evening at the home of , Frank Baker. She had been ill for the past year. She was born in Root township Dec. 11, 1882, a daughter of Samuel E. and Nancy Bailey-Dutcher, and was married to Charles Nyffeler Oct. 17, 1908. Her husband died April 5, 1948. Mrs. Nyffeler was a member of the Pleasant Mills Methodist church and was a charter member , of the St. Mary's Home Economics club. Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Harvey Garwood of Wren, 0., and Mrs. Albert Tinkham of Blue Creek township; three sons, : Robert L. Nyffeler of Decatur, Kenneth W. Nyffeler of Union town- ’ ship, and Sherman W. Nyffeler of Delphos, 0.-.'ll grandchildren; 1 three great-grandchildren, and two ' sisters, Mrs. Harve Ginter of Craigville, and Mrs. Herman Bosse 1 of Washington township. Two sons ‘ and two brothers are deceased. Funeral services wiU be conduct- ( ed at 2 p.m. Monday at the Zwick funeral home, the Rev. Billy J. , Springfield officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o’clock this evening until time of the services. "noon edition

U.N. Assembly Ends Session Friday Night Major Achievement End Os Suez War, Israel Withdrawal UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (UP) —Delegates to the 11th General Assembly left New York for their homes around the world today with orders to report back immediately if the Hungarian or Middle East situations erupted again. They left Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold with the responsibility of working toward a permanent Middle East settlement now that Britain, France and Israel all have withdrawn their troops from Egypt. The assembly recessed its 11th session at 8:25 EST Friday night. It had been at work since Nov. 12. Prior to that, the assembly had met for 12 days in emergency sessions on the Middle East and Hungarian crises. Diplomats hailed the ending of the 100-hobr Suez war and the withdrawal of Israel from Egypt as the session's major achievement. This contrasted with the situation in Hungary where the Russians and their puppet government in Budapest refused to get Soviet troops out of the beleaguered country or to let U.N. observers in. The assembly compromised on the ticklish issues of rebellions in Algeria, Cyrprus and West New Guinea (West Irian),- It sent the question of disarmament talks : back to private negotiations among the United States, Russia, Britain, France and Canada. It elected five countries to membership — Sudan, Morocco, Tunisia, Japan and newly-inde-pendent Ghana — increasing its rolls to 81 countries. All Students Quit Wo Protest Articles By History Prof By UNITED PRESS Mississippi college officials meet today to decide the fate at a Negro university suddenly deserted by all 570 students protesting a professor's "Uncle Tom-type” role in the South's segregation struggles. As the Misssisippi college board gathered in Jackson, Miss., attorneys for a Daytona Beach, Fla., 1 Negro trying to enter an all-white ; university stuaied a ruling by the 1 Florida Supreme Court which up- ' held the state’s right to reject the 1 Negro’s request for admission. Charges in Louisiana that the • Communists are behind NAACP 1 integration drives added to the in- 1 creasing segregation tension in ' Dixie. ' Ghost Campas Overnight Mississippi Gov. J. P. Coleman 1 said that little Alcorn A & M 1 College, which turned into a ghost ( campus Friday, would reopen this ' summer “with a new set of stu- 1 dents.” The entire student body left fol- 1 lowing a prayer meeting Friday, 1 saying they had no other choice as 1 “hohorable Americans.’’ The students were protesting 1 newspaper articles by history teacher Clennon King, 36, who < said that there was no basis for 1 charges that Negroes were perse- • cuted in Mississippi and urged a "go-slow” policy on integration. < In Florida, attorneys for Virgil < Hawkins read a state Supreme Court decision to decide if they < want to appeal a high court deci- ’ sion in order to continue Hawkins’ 1 fight to enter the University of < Florida Law School. The Florida court ruled in a J split, 5-2, decision that Hawkins’ 1 admission to the white college at this time would create “public mischief” and that it was within Florida's “sovereign" powers to deny him admission in order to keep the peace. Former Red Testifies A Negro who admitted serving the Communist Party told a Louisiana legislative committee in Baton Rouge that the NAACP is “nothing more than a vehicle for the Communist Party." Manning Johnson, who said he quit the Communists in 1940, also told the committee that the Rev. Martin Luther King, Negro integration leader in Montgomery, Ala., is leading the Negro “on a road to bloodshed ami violence. “I am not saying King is a Communist,” Johnson said, ”but I am saying that he is doing the Negro considerable harm." INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy tonight with a few snow flurries near Lake Michigan. Sunday fair and conL tinned odd. Lew tonight 15-22. - High Soaday 38-46. Ovdook for Monday: Showers and wanner.

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, March 9,1957;

Indiana’s Legislature Grinding Toward End Os Session On Monday ————— 'W ———

Mayor Schrank To Take Lie Detector Test Attempt To Clear Self Os Charges Os Taking Bribe WASHINGTON (UP) — Embattled Mayor Terry D. Schrank of Portland, Ore., hoped to take a lie detector test today in an effort to clear himself of charges he took a SSOO bribe from a gambler. He conceded he had been told he flunked a previous test on the same subject. But he wanted the new test anyway. The Senate Rackets Committee sent Schrank's testimony to the (Justice Department to study for possible perjury after he testified Friday. Committee Chairman John L. McClellan said it was “tiirettly in conflict” with that of other witnesses. Probing Shady Dealings The special committee is investigating an alleged hookup between officials of the AFL-CIO Teamsters Urilon, city officials and racketeers to take over vice operations in (Portland. * Committed Counsel Robert -f? Kennedy said he would try to arrange for the mayor’s lie detector test today or Monday. Schrank, who was sheriff of Multnomah County for seven years before being elected mayor last year with the backing of the Teamsters Union, asked Kennedy to have the test administered by the FBI instead of the Secret Service. Schrank said he “knew” the FBI and its methods. Zusman Fails Lie Test The Secret Service flunked natty Nate Zusman, a Portland night club operator, when he took a test Thursday to deny testimony of committee witnesses that he encouraged setting up a bawdy house. The 43-year-old mayor swore Friday that he did not take a SSOO bribe when he was sheriff to keep him from raiding an after-hours drinking and gambling joint, the 8212 Club. The rackets committee recessed for the week end with the announcement that much - married Clyde C. Crosby, Teamsters Union organizer for Oregon, would continue his testimony at its next session Tuesday. The present hearings will climax with the appearance of Frank W. Brewster, vice president of the Teamsters Union *and head of its 11-state Western Conference. Both Crosby and Mayor Schrank counterattacked the committee’s prize witness, Portland racketeer James B. Elkins. Schrank said Elkins was a narcotics addict who was out to destroy him. Crosby said Elkins was “head of the syndicate" who joined with the Portland Oregonian —a newspaper which published an expose , of alleged Teamster-rackets tieups—to make Teamster Union of- . ficials seem the villains in Port- ’ land vice dperations.

Lenten Meditation (By Rev. John E. Chambers, Trinity Evangelical United Brethren Church, Decatur) “SCRATCHY NEEDLES” Scripture: "Singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord” — Eph. 5:19. How many of our readers remember the old fashioned phonograph or victrola? We would wind them up with the crank, put the record in place, place the needle in the groove, and the music began. But oftimes there was more scratching of the needle, more static in the record, more humming of the mechanism, than there was music. Many times our lives are like the old victrola. We are made , for harmonious living but the song has gone out of our lives. Life becomes a discord and the fault lies in our own hearts—we forget to sing and make melody in our hearts to the Lord.» Has the melody gone out of your life? How long has it been since you have attended the worship service of your church “singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord? Why not worship God in your church this Sunday? • “In my heart there rings a melody There rings a melody with heaven’s harmony. There rings a melody df love.” '

Transportation For Pupils Long Battle Fight In Progress Nearly 25 Years WASHINGTON (UP) — The ’current controversy in Augusta, Maine, over public transportation for parochial school students is part of a nationwide legal battle that has been in progress for nearly 25 years. Starting with a court test in Wisconsin in 1923, Catholic parents have waged a persistent straggle to win free bus service for children who attend church-sponsored schools. Protestant groups usually have resisted the demand, as they are now doing in Maine, on grounds that it would breach the wall, of church-state separation. Hie issue must be threshed out on a state-by-state, and sometimes a community-by-community, basis. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in 1947 that the federal constitution does not bar the use of public funds to transport parochial students, if a state wishes to authorize it. State Laws Vary Fifteen states now have statutes authorizing some kind of public bus service for parochial school' students. These laws vary considerably, however, in the extent of service provided. Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Rhode Island provide the same kind of transportation for parochial students that is provided for public school students. New York, Maryland, Kentucky and Louisiana leave it up to each county or district to decide whether buses will be furnished for parochial students. Illinois, California, Indiana, Kansas, Michigan, New Jersey, New Mexico and Oregon permit parochial students who live along the regular route of a public school bus to ride that bus to whatever point on its route is nearest to the parochial school. But the public school buses may not go out of their way to pick up or deliver them. Courts in Wisconsin. Delaware, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Dakota and Washington State have ruled that public bus service for parochial students is forbidden by the state constitution. In three states —Maine, Connecticut and Colorado—there are conflicting interpretations of the law. Some school districts in Connecticut and Colorado provide buses for parochial students, others do not. Court tests are <in prospect in these states similar to that which Augusta parents are preparing in Maine. Some Provide Books . In the remaining 24 states, present laws are so explicit in restricting bus transportation to public school students that Catholic leaders see no point in starting a court test. Iliey say their first hurdle in these states is to get the state legislature to change the law if possible. Louisiana, Mississippi. New Mexico and Oregon now provide free textbooks for parochial students except in religious courses. Kansas and West Virginia authorize free textbooks for parochial students who cannot afford (Coatlßned oa Pace Five)

Seek To Break Stalemate On Farm Measure ! Democratic Farm Leaders Offer To Cut Down Benefits ' WASHINGTON - Demo- . cratic farm .leaders offered today . to scale down sharply the benefits [ of their farm subsidy plan in exchange for GOP support. The House Agriculture Committee called an unusual Saturday session behind closed doors in an attempt to break a stalemate that threatens to block emergency legislation to aid com growers. Rep.W. R. Poage (D-Tex.> said the partisan fight on the issue indicated that “unless we can get some kind of compromise, we can’t pass any bill.” Republicans made no commitments in advance of the meeting. They have insisted that benefits be restricted to corn growers located mainly in the Midwest. The House Thursday narrowly beat down the Republican plan by a 187-180 vote mainly along party lines. Democrats are backing instead a Wider plan to extend new .soil barite-btaefit* to Other growers. The House scheduled further voting on the legislation for Tuesday. Poage said Democrats are willing—if Republicans will go along—to accept a compromise proposal advanced Friday by an unnamed Republican member of the committee. He said this proposal would: —Retain the present 1% billion dollar a year ceiling on the soil bank and require that cost of new benefits be kept within that level. This was designed to meet Republican complaints that the Democratic plan could add as much as $1 billion to the cost of the program. —lnclude provisions dealing with com and five other basic crops: wheat, cotton, peanuts, rice and tobacco. Democrats had advocated (Coßtfaaed oa Pace Five) Addison A. Sheets Is Taken By Death Funeral Services Sunday Afternoon Addison A. Sheets, 83, a resident of Wren, 0., most of his life, and father of Earl Sheets of this city, who recently purchased Wylie Furniture store, died at 9:25 a. m. Friday at the Castle Convalescent Home in Van Wert, O. He had been in failing health for the past two years. A native, of Wren, 0., he was born Jan. 17, 1874, to Frederick and Nancy Ann Merica Sheets. He was married in 1897 to Qcie Zerkel, who died in 1908. In 1909 he married the former Lucy Leßrun, who survives. A Retired farmer, he was a member of the Wren Evangelical United Brethren church. Surviving in addition to the widow are four sons, Leland of Wren, Carl of Fort Wayne, Earl of Decatuf and Donald of Cincinnati, O.; a step-son, Raymond LeBrun of Wren; a step-daughter, Mrs. William Stauffer of Fort Wayne; a brother, Otto Sheets of ' Wren, and a sister, Mrs. Laura ' Purk of Wren. A son, a daughter, ■ a brother and a sister preceded him in death. ‘ The body was brought to the Zwick funeral home, where friends ( may call after 2 o’clock this afternoon. ' Funeral services will be con- , ducted at 2:30 p. m. Sunday at , the Wren Evangelical United Brethren church, with the Rev. , Dale Osborn and the Rev. Stow- j art Kokensparger officiting. Bur- ( ial will be in the Wren cemetery, i The body will lie in state at the , church from 12:30 p. m. until time , of the services.

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' Decatur Youth Wins t ' In District Contest Paul Schmidt Wins In Legion Contest Paul Schmidt, Decatur high school senior, took first place in district competition in the Ameri- ' can Legion oratorical contest held Friday night at the American Le- • J(i<» Post 47 insert Schmidt, a son of the Rev. and Mrs. Edgar Schmidt, won the right to represent the fourth district iff the zone contest later. Other winners were Janet Gieseking, Fort Wayne Central high school, second, and James Grant, Columbia City high school, third. Other contestants were Leola Hay of Auburn and LaDonna Smith of Ossian. The winners received prizes of sls, $lO and $5. Last night’s contest was the 20th such event sponsored by the American Legion, in cooperation with the Indiana bar association and the state department of public instruction. Hugh Andrews, of Decatur, was chairman for the fourth district contest and Lewis L. Smith, Decatur attorney, served as one of the judges. Other judges were John Young, principal of Village School at New Haven; Maurice Cook, principal of the school at Indiana Village in Fort Wayne; Dalton McAllister, Fort Wayne attorney, and Al Moellering, also a Fort Wayne attorney. The subject of discussion was the constitution and each contestant presented an extemporaneous talk on a phase of the bill of rights. Each of the contestants won the right to compete by placing first in local competition. The state winner each year receives a 84,000 scholarship to Indiana university. Engineer Confers With City Officials Confer Over Plans For Sewage Plant Another meeting to clear the path toward construction of a sewage disposal treatment plant in Decatur took place Thursday. John Ward, a representative of the Con-soer-Townsend engineering firm which is drawing up the plans for the plant, conferred with city officials. Ward inspected the rights of way on the sewer lines which will conduct the city’s sewage to the proposed plants. He also went over the plans to determine if any engineering changes would be necessary. Mayor Robert Cole, who attend- ; ed the meeting with city attorney j John L. DeVoss and city engineer • Ralph Roop, stated that apparent- j ly no major changes to the plans , will be necessary. The Consoer-Townsend engineer ( also went over the forms necessary ■ to complete acceptance of the federal aid offer of $250,000 which has i been made available to the city for < construction of the sewage disposal ; plant. (Continued on Paca Five)

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|l Time, Taxes Major Issues For Assembly Legislature Slated To Close Business At Midnight Monday INDIANAPOLIS (UP)—The Indiana Legislature ground toward | the finish line of its 61-day bi- . ennial session today with time and taxes the major Issues still i unresolved. •The session is due to end at I midnight Monday, and leaders of ' the General Assembly believed they would not have to' resort to the traditional clock-stopping maneuver to send it into overtime. Only a whisker from becoming law were bills encompassing the major portions of Governor Handley’s program to raise state revenues by many millions of dollars to meet a record 769 million dollar budget for the next two years. Also near enactment was a bill relieving Indiana’s time headache. t If it passes in its present form, i Hoosiers will go on a compromise . time schedule with everybody 1 from Lake Michigan to the Ohio . River and from Richmond to Terre Haute .observing Central Standard j Time seven montta in the year t and Daylight Saving Time the r other five months. Senate Votes Today • The Senate Votes today on Gov--1 ernor Handley’s plan for with- < holding the gross income tax from ■ workers pay checks.* Most obser- ~ ’ vers felt the bill would pass. Alf though some Republicans opposed it, the plan was part of the minors ity Democrats’ 1956 platform. The ■ bill previously passed the House. The other major bill in the i Handley revenue program—raising the gross income tax rate 50 per cent—passed the Senate 30-18 Friday and went to a conference committee for agreement cm minor amendments. Governor Handley said 'he will sign it. But Handley's proposal for a token “net worth" tax on corporations appeared dead. House GOP caucus chairman Court Rollins of Muncie said Republicans voted 31-31 in a Friday afternoon caucus to suspend rules and pass the bill, calling for onetwentieth of one cent tax on each $1 of the net worth of corporations. Even if all 24 Democrats in the House supported a motion to suspend rules, they and the 31 Republicans favoring the tax could not make the necessary two-thirds majority for taking such action. Rollins said this meant the bill is dead. Demos Resist To End However, failure of the bill would not ’cripple the governor’s program. The tax was adjusted downward in amendments to only onesixth of the amount Handley asked, and it would have brought in only Hi million dollars a year. Besides that, the governor had recommended the money be put aside and not spent until constitutionality of the tax was tested. Democrats resisted tax increases to the end. Sen. Matthew Welsh of Vincennes, the minority floor leader, said the only reason for tax hikes was deficit spending by former Gov. George Craig’s administration. The time bill was due to come up in both houses .today byway of submission of a conference committee report recommending a 7-5 split between CST and DST, with fines and jail terms and withholding of state aid as penalties for violators. In other Friday night action: To Study Highways The House passed 88-0 a Senate resolution to create a highway study commission. Earlier the resolution received support from leaders of both parties in both houses after John Peters, new chairman of the State Highway Department, said he found the department a “mess” when *he took office. The House passed a Senate bill raising speed limits on the Indiana Toll Road from 55 miles per hour to 60 for buses and from 45 to 50 for trucks. It was amend-