Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 61, Decatur, Adams County, 13 March 1957 — Page 1

Vol. LV. No. 61.

IKE AND MACMILLAN WILL MEET HERE MARCH 21

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HERE IS Bermuda’s fashionable Mid-Ocean club, where President Eisenhower and British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan will meet March 21. It is atop a hili in the Tucker's Town section, and overlooks the Atlantic Ocean. * ' ■ 1 '■ ir "" r '""" 1 "M ••. ■

Says Congress To Decide On Budget Cuts Only Possibility Os Substantial Cut Is In Basic Programs WASHINGTON (UP)—President Eisenhower said today if Congress wants to cut his budget substantially it will have to decide which government programs are to be cut, eliminated or slowed down. The only place where substantial reductions can be made, he said, are in such basic programs as defense and security, veterans and farm benefits. The chief executive made the statement at a crowded news conference attended' by 236 reporters to indicate how strongly he felt about the House resolution, sponsored by Democrats, calling for substantial reduction of his $71.8 billion budget and asking him where and how it can be cut. If any great cuts are to be made, he said, it will be necessary to reduce, eliminate, _or slow down such basic programs as defense and security, veterans benefits and the farm program. , No Stop in Florida Otherwise, he said, there could be no great savings because only a small percentage of spending planned for fiscal 1958 are susceptible to administrative savings. Other highlights of Mr. Eisenhower’s news conference: 1. The President disclosed that he plans to leave late Thursday from Norfolk, Va., aboard a Navy cruiser for a slow trip to Bermuda instead of vacationing in Florida prior to his Bermuda meeting next week with British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. 2. He preferred not to discuss the implications in Egyptian plans to take over civil administration of the Gaza Strip. He said negotiations involving Gaza are in the hands of the United Nations and he did not want to prejudge an ultimate solution. 3. He said that if the United States decides to make aid avail'able to Poland, he will ask Congress for the power to make loans to the Polish state should there be any legal ban on such loans. Would Support Hall 4. As for reports of congressional grumbling because of his inaccessibility to members of the House and Senate, the President said he had never received any complaints. 5. He insisted that he had no intention of injecting himself into internal affairs of the Republican Party in New York state by saying last week that if Leonard W. Hall, former GOP national chairman, ran for governor he would have a booster in the President. Mr. Eisenhower said he would have nothing to do with a New York primary fight among Repub-j licans, but he would give Hall his enthusiastic support if he became the candidate. In discussing the budget, Mr. Eisenhower said that so far as he knows passage of the House resolution .marked the first tim? Congress ever called on a chief executive to cut a budget. He said Congress alone has the constitutional power to appropriate . money, and the executive branch can't spend a cent without prior approval of the House and Senate. - Approves Budget Re-Study He said in reply to a question that he has not seen the exact (Continuea on INDIANA WEATHER Mostly cloudy, colder extreme north tonight with a few showers likely late tonight. Thursday occasional showers and turning , colder. Low tonight mostly in the 40s. High Thursday ranging from the mid 40s extreme north to the 60s south. Sunset 6:50 p. m., sunrise Thursday 6:59 a. m.

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Fine Arts Festival Here Friday Night Musical Program Will Be Presented William Hernandez, a member of the Fort Wayne Philharmonic orchestra and a teacher in this county, will be guest soloist in the musical program to be presented at the fine arts festival Friday evening at Decatur high school. The festival, sponsored by the ■ music and art departments of the school, will feature a display of the works of local artists, as well as the musical program by the ' schools' junior and senior choirs and bands. The exhibit is slated to open at 7 p.m. and will open again following the musical program. The music will begin at 8 p.m. The public is invited to attend and no admission is being charged. Hernandez attended the Chicago Conservatory of Music. While at school he played principal clarinet and later was first clarinetist with the 395th army air forces, band I stationed in Germany. He has also played principal clarinet with the Chicago Northside symphony and has studied ' with Jerome Stowell, clarinetist with the Chicago Symphony orchestra. He is currently a member of the Fort Wayne Philharmonic and the Ballet Society orchestra. Hernandez has had modern jazz experience and is playing alto saxaphone and clarinet with the Decatur “Keynoter's” orchestra. He is teaching at the Decatur Music House and at the Jefferson and Hartford township schools. The Friday night program will open with selections by the junior band ‘‘Abide With Me” and "Meadow Lands March.” The sixth and seventh grade choir will present “I Like It Here” and the combined junior band and< choir will present "Battle Hymn of the Republic.” Members of the high school band will then present “Slaughter on Tenth Avenue" conducted by Jerry Kaehr; a demonstration of-how a fugue is written and a sketch; by John Sheets and Jack Barlet; “Prelude to a Fugue” by Bach; | “Valse Bluette" to be conducted ; by Jane Stiverson; "The Sand Piper Ballet” by Anderson; “Clarinet Concert” by Mozart to (Continued on Page Sixt Decatur Girl Winner In Rotary Contest Ellen Welch Wins In Group Contest Miss Ellen Welch, Decatur high 'school senior, Tuesday night won the second step in the annual Rotary speech contest, taking first place in the Fort Wayne group contest, held at the Hobby Ranch House in Fort Wayne, j Last evening's contest was to name a representative for a group of six Rotary clubs of this area. Miss Welch will next compete in the sectional contest, for which the site and date have not been determined. Miss Connie Geiger, of Fort Wayne Central high school, was awarded second place and will serve as alternate for the sectional contest. Other contestants Tuesday night were James Grant, of Columbia City, and Miss Donna Fosnaugh, of Berne. Oscar Isay, of the Fort Wayne Rotary club, acted as chairman, and J. L. Brenn, of Huntington, district governor for Rotary International, presented a gold medal to Miss Welch, and a silver medal to Miss Geiger. This year’s Rotary contest is based on the theme, "How can youth contribute to world peace?”. Miss Welch. Was accompanied to the contest by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Welch, and Deane T. Dorwin, speech instructor in the Decatur high school.

New Stumbling Blocks Delay Assembly End , Further Postpone Adjournment For State Legislature 11 INDIANAPOLIS (IP! —New* stumbling blocks sprang up like J mushrooms in the Indiana Legis- . lature today and further postponed adjournment of a session already j two days beyond its constitutional t limits. ( The latest areas of disagreement < were: t 1. A seaport on Lake Michigan. ( 2. A vetertnary school at Pur- f due. 3. A seven million dollar extra t appropriation for public schools, 1 Republicans who control t h £ ( Senate insisted on a two million s dollar budget item for a Seaport. ’ Republicans who control the House insisted on a veterinary ’ school costing the same amount ; as the port. It seemed to be agreed they j couldn’t both have their way, j since four million dollars wa s , more than the budget could stand, j Republicans agreed on a 14 million dollar extra school fund j distribution after hours of wran- , gling. But then the minority Dem- ] ocrats raised their voices in pro- < test over plans to distribute 7 of r those millions on a per-pupil basis, j thereby ignoring an established formula for giving bigger relative e shares of state aid to those schools j least able to raise adequate local t tax revenue because of low prop- t ( erty values. *■ ' The GOP argument over extra millions for schools was settled ? early this morning when a caucus r of senators agreed generally on the school phases of a biennial ® budget solution previously okayed ' : by House Republicans. v Demos Balk On Schools But the senators refused to go 2 1 along with a House decision to € create a school of veterinary medicine at Purdue University. The 1 senators wanted a seaport in | Porter County, a project the ’ House members previously cast s aside in favor of the veterinary sdhool. ( To add to the complications • which sent the lawmakers into the | 63rd day of a session limited to 61 days by the Constitution, Democrats on a joint conference com- < mittee on the budget bills an- • nounced they would refuse to sign ( any report calling for distribution j of seven million dollars to schools on a per pupil basis. 1 < "The keystone of our govern- > ment,” said Sen. Matthew Welsh * of Vincennes, “is based on free and etfual education. We will not have anything to do with anything that nibbles away at that prin- t ciple.” s Welsh said the per-pupil basis of distribution ignored the present g formula of distributing the bulk of state school aid which takes into - account the relative wealth of a school unit and adjusts its payments upward if it has a low property value with inadequate means of-raising tax revenues to operate its schools. Say They Won’t Sign Welsh and Rep. Robert Gramelspacher of Jasper said they would not sign such a report and that this would mean a new conference committee would have to be appointed, further extending the legislative session. 7 PlKup sth pgh: House Democrat Governors Invited To Parley WASHINGTON (W — Demcratic National Chairman Paul M. Butler has invited the 29 Democratic governors to attend “a conference of governors” here on May 4. e ■

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United States Offers New Proposal To Deal With Mid-East Crisis

Israel Ready To Embark On Military Move , Military Moves If Political Measures Fail To End Crisis JERUSALEM (UP) - Premier David Ben-Gurion said today Israel will take military measures if political measures fail to resolve the Gaza crisis. » The ailing premier made the statement in the Knesset (parliament) after weathering two votes of confidence on the Gaza issue and blaming “certain Mg powers” for Egypt’s threat to return to the area. Ben-Gurion stressed that Israel reserved freedom of action in the event of an Egyptian return to Gaza. And he deplored the alleged concern of U.N. officers for the feelings of Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser rather than for Mideast peace. Ben-Gurion apparently referred to an Egyptian military reoccupation of Gaza with the possibility of renewed attacks on Israeli settlements by . Egypt Fedayeen commandos. ■■ But he referred only to an Egyp* tian “return to Gaza.” ■ Ben-Gurion expressed alarm at statements In Egypt by U.N. Assistant Secretary - General Ralph Bunche that the U.N. Emergency Force was in Gaza only temporarily and by permission of the Egyptian government. He replied to questioning members of parliament that Israel would “not take it lying down” if Egypt returns to Gaza, but he declined to make a public pronouncement of Israel's exact military plans. He told parliament its . fears I about the gaza Strip were “not unjustified” and he referred a discussion of possible Israeli actions to the Foreign Affairs Security Committee. But he made it clear Israel would resort to military measures if political measures fail. And, in expressing surprise and alarm at Bunche’s statements in Cairo, Ben-Gurion said it was not within the power “of the Egyptian dictator” Nasser "to agree or disagree, since he was ignominously expelled from the Gaza Strip.” “In fact, the Egyptians seized the strip in the first place in violation of the U.N. charter and of a U.N. Security Council decision,” he said. South Bend Woman Is Killed By Train SOUTH BEND (W — Mrs. Louis S. Savari, Jr., 42, was killed late Tuesday when she stepped in front of a New York Central railroad passenger train at a crossing. Sen. Langer Continues To Show Improvement WASHINGTON (UP) — Sen. William Langer (R-N.D.) continued to improve in his battle against pneumonia and pleurisy at the naval medical center, his doctors i said today.

Lenten Meditation “THE COMPLETE PERSON” “And ye are complete in him.”—Col. 2:10 Three thousand four hundred years ago a sculptor carved a small head of an Egyptian king, Thutmose 111. It became broken. Hie larger part wound up in the Bavarian state collection in Munich. The smaller part disappeared. In 1953 a puzzled art dealer brought the missing piece to the museum. It matched the original perfectly. So King Thutmose 111 was finally put back together again. We don’t have to go to museums to find people with parts missing. We often lose a part of ourselves somewhere along the way. Usually it is the l°P s kied, out of joint. Something is 'iWr beome hard, cold, ingrown. We are only half alive. This is because we have lost our sense of God. And in so doing we lose the best part of ourselves. But thank God we can be put back together again! For, as Paul tells the Colossians, we find in Christ completion and fulfillment. “You have come to fulness of life in him,”’ is the R.S.V. translation. Christ takes our scattered and fragmentary parts and makes us whole. The Christian is the complete person.

False Bomb Threats Halt Plane Flights Anonymous Phone Call Tells Threat NEW YORK (UP)— False 5 bomb threats disrupted flights of four airlines Tuesday at airports throughout the East. The phony bomb warnings , caused delays in flights of Trans- ’ World, American,, United and . Delta airlines planes while they were searched in New York, Phil- ’ adelphia, Newark, N.J., and Jack- ’ son Miss. Six airborne TWA planes made , emergency landings at airports as far south as Baltimore and as far ’ west as Detroit to permit ? searches. No bombs were found on any of > the planes. The excitement began when an anonymous caller, sounding like a teen-age boy, told a TWA reser- . vation clerk: "There's a bomb on your plane. You had better get it off.” The airline notified authorities at LAGuardia and Idlewild airports in New York, and Newark Airport in New Jersey to hold planes for searching. Tuesday night, Shirley Mayfield. 25, a reservation agent for Amer- , ican Airlines in Philadelphia, received- a telephoned threat from > a woman who said she had a “grudge’’ against airplanes be- . cause het father had been struck by one. i The woman said she had planted 12 sticks of dynamite on an American Airlines plane. She said ■ they were set to explode at midnight. “Which plane is for you to find out,” she told Miss Mayfield. A United Airlines spokesman said a bomb warning also had been received from either a woman or a child caller. Both American and United airlines immediately grounded all their planes in the vicinity. Thorough searches were made of all aircraft but no explosives were found. Airlines officials reported they have received about one false bomb threat a month since an airliner was dynamited in Nov., 1955, while en route from Denver to Portland, Ore. John Gilbert Graham was executed for planting a bomb on the plane, killing 44 persons, including his mother. Two planes already in the air when the latest bomb alert was sounded landed at Baltimore, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Boston and Philadelphia. State Traffic Toll Below 1956 Figures INDIANAPOLIS <lPi — Indiana traffic fatalities for 1957 are running more than 17 per cent below comparative figures for last year, and the biggest contributing factor is a substantial reduction in accidents on state and federal highways. The toll through last Sunday was 163, compared with 198 in the same period of 1956, according to state police provisional fugures. Supt. Harold Zeis said 88 have been killed on state and federal roads thur far in 1957, compared I with 121 last year.

Egypt To Take On Civil Rule Os Gaza Strip Bunche And Nasser Agreed On Civil i Control By Egypt CAIRO (UP) — Assistant Secre- ‘ tary-General Ralph Bunche of the ■ United Nations and Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser agreed ■ today that Egypt will take over ! civil administration of the Gaza ' Strip. ’ Bunche said U.N. Emergency r Forces would turn over the Gaza administration to Egypt in the same way it returned control of 1 Port Said to Egypt after the Anglo-French invasion. “However, it is up to the Egyptian authorities to announce when the takeover will take place,” he said. He added: "The UNEF is not an administrative force in Gaza.” Reports from Gaza told of renewed mass demonstrations by the Arab population for the return of Egyptian control. The reports said there were no incidents of violence. - Bunche met with Nasser for 90 minutes for an urgent discussion on the crisis between the UNEF and Egypt. Bunche said his talks with Nasser were “very helpful and constructive.” Egypt appointed a civil administrator for the strip and said he would take over his duties “forthwith.” Bunche had with him a message , from United Nations Secretary- ' General Dag Hammarskjold on Egypt’s announcement she would take over administration of the Gaza Strip "forthwith.” While Bunche was meeting with . Nasser, the government newspaper Al Gomhouria declared U.N. forces had<“no right whatsoever to take up the administration of any part of the area or take any actions beyond clearly defined limits and functions assigned to it by the U.N. General Assembly.” Cairo Radio said the meeting lasted 90 minutes. It said Bunche expressed to Nasser “on behalf of the United Nations; the secretary general and on his own behalf, his deep regret for the incident of the killing of the Gaza martyrs.” The broadcast referred to Egyptian charges that .UNEF troops shot and killed an Arab refugee during a demonstration in Gaza Sunday. Bunche denied it Tuesday night and said the troops “fired in the air.” Informed sources here said (Continuea on Faae Six) Charles Burdg Dies Tuesday In Florida Native Os County Is Taken By Death Charles Burdg, 69, well-known former Union township resident, died Tuesday at Palmetto, Fla., following a stroke. He and his wife, who survives, have spent their winters in Florida for the past several years. A native of Adams county, he was born Dec. 7, 1887, and resided most of his life here. He was a former Union township trustee and was associated with Everett and Hite wholesale grocers. He was well-ktiown in lodge circles in Decatur. He was a member of the local chapter of the Masonic lodge, the Order of Eastern Star, the Scottish Rite of Fort Wayne, the Red Men’s lodge and the Knights of Pythias. He was a member of the First Methodist church in Decatur. Surviving in addition to his wife are two brothers, Dick Burdg of Decatur and Joe Burdg of Cleveland. and two sisters. Merle Burdg of Portland, and Mrs. Walter Miller of St. Petersburg, Fla. The body is being taken to the Greer, Croy and Fitch funeral home at Popular Bluffs, Mo„ where funeral services will be conducted . Burial will be in the cemetery there.

First Membership Reports Due Today Civic Music Drive Will End Saturday First reports of campaign workers in the membership drive of the Adams county civic music association are due today, according to a reminder issued by Mrs. A. R. Holthouse, chairman of the membership campaign. All workers have been asked to > make initial reports today and - Friday. Membership sales kits i must be turned in Saturday ber fore the 6p. m. deadline. ‘ No memberships in the association will be available after that f time. Membership entitles the holder to attend a series of con- ? certs by well-known artists. The f concerts are open only to memB bers of the association and no single session tickets are availi able “ e Interest is high in this year’s campaign because of praise of the t artist series of the current concert > season. Association officers hope . to go over last year’s membership! > to guarantee a 1957-58 series equal ( t to that of the initial year. I All interested persons are urged . to obtain their memberships without delay in order to avoid being I put on the waiting list for next i year. Th» sales Will end when ' 1,600 memberships have been sold. Headquarters for the campaign • in Decatur are located at the De- - catur Youth and Community Center and are open dally from 10 • a. m. to sp. m. The headquart- ! ers telephone number is 3-3116. A reminder was also made that '-ciders of memberships in the local association are also entitled to attend the concert series at Huntington, which has just formed a similar association. The Huntington series next year will include the Indianapolis Symphony, Men of Song and Ferrante and Teicher, all of whom were wellreceived in appearances at Decatur this year. Also on the Huntington agenda are Goya and Matteo, a dance duo, and Ruth Slenczynska, a prominent concert pianist. Retailer-Employe Banquet Held Here Dinner Kick-off To Retail Promotion Demonstrating his ability to remember and then explaining how his memory was developed, R. P. Mitchel, a chemical engineer from St. Mary's, 0., addressed Decatur retail merchants and employes at a banquet Tuesday night at the Decatur Youth and Community Center. Mitchel's talk was the main feature of the program for the dinner which was the kick-off for the year-long promotional program of the retail rivision of the Chamber of Commerce. Mitchel showed his ability to remember by answering questions about the contents of the current issue of Look magazine. Copies of the magazine were distributed among the audience and Mitchel was able to describe what was featured on a given page of the magazine. He stated that he had been able to develop this ability in a sixmonth period by using the three natural aids to memory — association, impression and repetition. He explained his own system of association which featured “memory pegs.” In addition to the memory pegs, he added the stacking system and the story or sentence system. Mitchel pointed out that psychologists say that a memory is developed and that few j persons use the full capacity of ; their memory. Also featured in his , talk was a system to remember j names. j Preceding his talk was a pro- 1 gram of vocal music presented by students of Pleasant Mills high school. Selections were sung by a boys quartet, a girls quartet and a girls trio. ? Robert Lane, chairman of the ‘ retail division of the Chamber, * (Continued on Pare Six) *

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Ike Reveals New Proposal Made To U N. No Details Given Os New Proposals By United States WASHINGTON (UP)—President Eisenhower revealed today that the United States has submitted to the United Nations new proposals for dealing with the Middle East situation. But the President made it clear at his news conference that it is up to the U.N. to take the lead in making arrangements for negotiations aimed at settling problems of the troubled Middle East. Mr. Eisenhower gave no details of the U.S. proposals which he said have been communicated to U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold. But he said Hammarskjold plans to leave for the Mididle East Saturday. i The President said he had not .heard of late news reports from Cairo to the effect that the U.N. ■ and Egypt had agreed that Egypt Will take over civil administration of the Gaza Strip. A newsman asked the President whether he would like to see Egypt delay plans to take over civil administration of Gaza. Without replying direptly, the President said he would like to see i arrangements made which the U.N. and Hammarskjold believe would be most effective in bringing out negotiations to settle Middle Eastern problems. The President said he talked this morning about the middle Eastern situation with Acting Secretary of State Christian A. Herter. The President said it is Hammarskjold who is conducting the negotiations and who is going to the area Saturday. Since the problem is in a negotiating stage, the President said he would not pre(Continued on P*r» Sis) Band Parents Plan Fish Fry March 29 To Purchase More Monmouth Uniforms The Monmouth band parents’ organization is completing arrangements for a fish fry to be held at the Monmouth gym March 29 from 5.:30 to 7:30 p.m. This is the second project that the organization has undertaken to raise money for band uniforms. Last November the entire community was canvassed for this purpose. The canvass was a success and the uniforms were ordered. They arrived the last of January. Interest in the Monmouth band has improved so much that it will be necessary to purchase several more uniforms for new members who will enter the band next fall. The band parents’ organization hopes to raise the necessary S6OO through the fish fry. Tickets for the event will cost $1 for adults and 50 cents for children from 5 to 12. These tickets may be purchased from band members, band parents, Monmouth students, or at the Decatur Music House, the First State Bank of Decatur and at the Holthouse store on highway 27 or the Holthouse drug store uptown in Decatur. General chairman of the fish fry is Earl Caston.-Co-chair men of the kitchen committee are Carl Snyder, chief cook, Robert Kolter, and Robert Beery. Norval Fuhrman is chairman in charge of securing tables and chairs. Mrs. Leo Roe is in charge of the serving, and Mrs. Ed Cook and Lpren Jones are in charge of ticket distribution. Jack Miller, a Monmouth band member, is making all posters advertising the event. Entertainment for the evening will be presented by the Monmouth band. The band parents extend an invitation to everyone to come to the Monmouth gym on the evening of March 39 and enjoy “all the fish you can eat!” » ■