Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 84, Decatur, Adams County, 9 April 1957 — Page 1

Vol. LV. No. 84.

THERE GOES A 105-YEAR RECORD

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FOB 105 YEARS the Spellman family of Chicago have listened to the proud pronouncement “It’s a boy.” That .was until Susan Elizabeth knocked the props from under the record, arriving to join two brothers in the family of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Spellman of suburban Glenview. In the picture above, a nurse holds the record-breaker before her beaming mother. She’s the first girl entered in family records since 1852.

At Least 19 Die In Latest Spring Storm Cooler And Clear Weather In Wake Os Southeast Storm By UNITED PRESS Cool but mostly clear weather overspread the Southeast Tuesday in the wake of a barrage of deathdealing tornadoes, and a snowstorm in the Northeast moved rapidly out to sea. In Colorado, rescue workers dug < through tons of snow in search of a camerman" for Walt Disney Studios who was buried along with a companion, under a man-made avalanche. A United Press count showed at least 19 persons killed in the latest flurry of spring weather violence. Four persons were kflledln a tornado Monday at Roseboro. N. C., two were killed in a traffic wreck blamed on high winds and blinding rain near Raeford, N.C., Monday night, six persons died in Indiana, three in Illinois, and two each in Colorado and Ohio. “ “Tornado Alley” Monday’s outbreak of twisters skipped through Dixie’s “Tornado Alley” from northern Mississippi through Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina and southeastern North Carolina. The twisters, touched off by a massive cold air mass, left at least 260 persons injured and some 500 homeless. Damages were expected to reach more than one million dollars. Among the hardest hit sections were Roseboro, ’N.C., where four persons were killed and about 25 persons injured, and Falkville, Ala., where at least 45 persons were injured. The avalanche occurred at Berthoud Pass when the Colorado Highway Department fired a 75millimeter howitzer shot into a sheer mountainside to loosen a dangerous snow accumulation. Body Still Missing The snow rumbled down out of control, burying camerman John Herman of Salt Lake City, Utah, who was taking shots of the slide, and Wayne S. Witlock, 20, a truck driver for the Highway Department. Witlock’s body was recovered Monday night, and Herman’s today was dug out of the snow early Tuesday. A snowstorm in the Northeast swept toward the Atlantic after dumping one to four inches of new snow during the night across northeastern Ohio, northern Pennsylvania and much of New York state. ~~ Earlier, the storm “howled” through Indiana, blocking at least 10 state highways with drifting snow. Five of Indiana’s weather deaths occurred in traffic crashes blamed on slippery roads. River levels in the East and Midwest continued to rise after weeks of heavy rain. About 50 families were evacuated in Indiana Monday when the Wabash River climbed nearly 10 feet above ( Con«lnnrd on Pnire Pl»e> To Deliver Monroe Fire Truck Friday Monroe’s new rural fire truck, not expected to be delivered until about June 1, will be delivered Friday afternoon, it was learned today., ! The early arrival of the hew rural truck has presented a major problem, since the new fire department building has not been completed. Town officials and rural fire ‘department officers are now making plans for housing the new truck. The truck will be shown off to all present at 12:30 p.m. Saturday at the Adajns Central school.

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GOP Administration Os State Assailed Huge Gubernatorial Fund Is Attacked 'KOKOMO, Ind. (UP) - Sen. Earl M. Utterback (D-Kok6mo). charged Tuesday that “the present Republican state administration was more interested in the pork barrel than sausage when it rolled the veterinary school bill through the recent Legislature.” In a speech prepared for der livery at a noon meeting of the Kokomo Rotary, Utterback, 1956 Democratic candidate for state superintendent of public Instruction. also said that “House Speaker George Diener’s retirement from politics simply was a move on Diener’s part to become crown prince In Governor Harold Handley’s reign of error." The Kokomo educator said ■ Diener (R-Indianapolis) "hasn’t stopped politicking since the Legislature ended,” and -he called on Diener “to explain his statement that the 50 per cent gross income tax increase and the other 23 major tax boosts Republicans forced through are ’only temporary’.” Utterback said Hoosier Republicans earned the title of "economic royalists when they created the tremendous gubernatorial contingency fund. This enables Governor Handley to bypass legislative conr trol and strike a blow at the nation’s historic check and balance of legislative upon executive.” Utterback further charged Republicans with “intellectual dishonesty in sending Diener and others out to sell the tax increase as aids to schools, when actually the schools received very little from the Legislature." “Most of the funds,” he said, “went to pet pork barrel projects such as the port for Indiana and the veterinary school.” Auctions Al Monroe Thursday, Saturday Provide Funds Eor Rural Fire Truck AUCTIONS AT MONROE 00The first of two auctions this week'to raise funds for the Monroe rural fire truck and new Monroe fire station will be held Thursday night at 7:30 o’clock. Art Roudebush and Howard Habegger, cochairmen of the event, announced today. ® Pies, cakes, home-made bread, oopcorn, frozen meat, and other edibles will be offered for sale Thursday night. Many new articles will also be sold on Thursday and on Saturday afternoon, including watch sets, extension cords, trouble lights, serving sets, stainless steel table service, glass fishing rods, electric drills, drill sets, electric skillets, plastic garden hose, steel folding ironing boards, steel tapes, and many other new itejns. The new rural fire truck will be on display Saturday afternoon, with a demonstration at 12:30 p.m. Memberships will be available in the rural department at that time. Lunch will be available. The Saturday sale will start at 1 p.m., and will include wagons, bicycles, farm machinery, and other larger items. Persons 'having articles they wish to consign to the sale will be charged a commission. They should contact Art Roudebush or Howard Habegger. INDIANA WEATHER Clear and cool Tuesday night, frost likely south portion. • Wednesday mostly fair and a little warmer. Low tonight 2535. High Wednesday 46-54 north 53-66 smith. Sunset 7:17 p.m., sunrise Wednesday 6:15 a.tn.

Nasser Fears Surprise Move From Israelis Egyptian Sources Express Fears Os Action By Israel By WALTER LOGAN United Press Staff Correspondent Egyptian sources expressed fear Tuesday in Cairo that Israel might launch a “surprise move” against Jordan. The statement came as Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt accepted an invitation by King Hussein of Jordan to attend another Arab "summit” meeting to deal with the new threat Nasser warned in his reply that Israel might launch a “new aggression” and said the Arab leaders should coordinate their plans against “any surprise move.” There was no reply yet from Syrian President Shukri El-Kuwat-ly nor from Saudi Arabian King Saud who met with the Jordanian and Egyptian leaders in Cairo soon after Saud returned from Washington early this year. Egypt has placed its troops on a full military alert cancelled some army leaves and called a series of air raid drills in principal cities. Unconfirmed reports in Cairo said the nation may soon call up its reservists. Build Fence in Gasa Arab quarters in Cairo said the stationing of the United Nations Emergency Force along the Israeli-Egyptian border would neu-1 tralize the Egyptian forces and permit Israel to “seek adventure elsewhere.” Recent repo; ~i have said Saudi Arabian troops were preparing to move into the Jordanian port of Aqaba which is less than five miles from the Israeli port of Eilat at the top or the Gulf of Aqaba. In addition, Saudi Arabia has joined the other Arab nations in declaring the Gulf of Aqaba Arab territorial waters which would not be open to Israeli shipping. The concern in Bgypt appeared to reflect fears the Isra&Umight move to secure their shipping rights in the gulf. The reports coincided with the announcement in Ashkelon. Israel, that Israel had agreed to the building of a heavily mined, 42mile long barbed wire fence along the length of the Gaza Strip to prevent border raids. —'rat) Mrs. Mary Wittwer Dies This Morning Funeral Services Thursday Afternoon Mrs. Mary Wittwer, 75, of Berne, died at 12:20 o’clock this morning at the Adams county memorial hospital. Death was caused by pneumonia and uremic poisoning. She was born in Hartford townmerman, and was married to Sam Wittwer Aug. 4, 1901. Mrs. Wittwer was a member of the First Missionary church at Berne. Surviving in addition to her husband are six daughters, Mrs. Felix Yoss of Fort Wayne, Mrs. Lester Reynolds of Linn Grove, Mrs. Frank Liechty of near Berne, Mrs. Elvet Dawe of North Ridge, Calif., Mrs. Robert Welch of Bluffton, Ohio, and Miss Phyliss Wittwer, at home; six sons, Vilas of Richmond. John of North Manchester, Jesse of Fort Wayne, LaVerne of Hudson, Kenneth of Willshire, Ohio, and Weldon of Battle Creek, Mich.; 30 grandchildren; 17 greatgrandchildren; four brothers, Simon, Albert and Noah Zimmerman, all of near Geneva, and Elmer Zimmerman of Flint, Mich., and one sister, Mrs. Jesse Amstutz of Roseville, Mich. Three brothers preceded her in death. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Thursday at the First Missionary church in Berne, the Rev. J. J. Klopfenstein and the Rev. C. H. Weiderkehr officiating. Burial will be in the MRE cemetery. Friends may call at the Yager funeral home after nocm Wednesday until noon Thursday, when the body will be removed to the church to lie in state until time of the services. . „. ~ f. District Oratorical Contest Postponed The district contest of the Knights of Columbus oratorical event, scheduled to take place Monday night at the local K. of C. hall, was postponed to Monday, April 22. David Voglewede, a senior at Decatur Catholic high school, is the local entrant. Others competing will be from Fort Wayne and Huntington.

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Auto Workers Study Problem Os Dues Boost | Name Review Board t To Police Union From Racketeers > , ki ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. (UP) — The United Auto Workers Union tackles Tuesday the question, of a dues increase for its 1,500,000 members. Some Opposition to the proposed increase was reported. President George Meany of the AFL-CIO was to address the morning session of the union’s 16th constitutional convention. The convention Monday adopted UAW President Walter Reuther’s * . n p U bij c review board Io help police the union against The seven-man public review board, with six members accepted by the convention and the seventh to be named from a list offered by those accepted, became a fact when the convention approved a constitutional amendment overwhelmingly. ’Not Window Dressing* j The board, which Reuther said “was not window dressing,” wfll be a watchdog in the framgyork of the union, with the right'* of decision on matters regarding violations of the ethics code of the union and the AFL-CIO. It can make binding decisions on complaints, and can make public its findings. It was described by Reuther as a board “with broad powers and responsibilities.” Dr. Milton Eisenhower, brother of President Eisenhower, was the only member of the original seven chosen who was unable to accept. Dr. Eisenhower declined with regret because of a “myraid of duties” including those as president of Johns Hopkins University, two government assignments and several active directorships. Seventh Member Sought | The sixTnembers who accepted will prepare a list of names and submit them to the union’s Executive Board to make a choice of the remaining member. Reuther said the union was looking toward Canada for the seventh member. The* prominent citizens who agreed to serve on the union’s new review board were; Rabbi Morris Adler, of Detroit; Dr. Clark Kerr, chancellor of the University of California'; Dr. Edwin Witte of the University of Wjsconsin; Judge Wade H. McCree 'of the Detroit Circuit Court; the Very Rev. Msgr. George G. Higgins of the Roman Catholic Welfare Conference of Washington, D. C., and Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, of Washington, D. C., former president of the World Council of Churches. was only mild opposition to the formation of the board. Four among the 3,200 delegates spoke against it, and the motion was carried by what Reuther said was 97 per cent of the delegates. The union unanimously adopted its ethics code, a 16 point program which covered racketeering and corruption, before it tackled the review board.

Lenten Meditation *“THE GOOD PORTION” “But the Lord answered her, ’Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things; one thing is need- ' ful. Mary has chosen the good portion, which shall not be taken away from her'.’’—Luke 10:41-42 (R.S.V.) Alberto diacometti, the sculptor, changed his style completely, at the height of his career. He narrowed the focus of his art, he said, in order to find reality. “One could spend an entire life on the end of a nose. The difference between one side of the nose and the other became like a Sahara, limitless." Perhaps there is a clue here for the overly busy Christian. We are likely to miss the reality of God if, like Martha, we are anxious and troubled about many things. We need to cut life down to our size. That is, we can trim away much that is on the edges and give more attention to the good portion at the center. We are likely to wear our faith too thin with our much doing. Human service is important but it cannot be a substitute for nor an escape from the worship of God. When we concentrate on the divine reality at the heart of life, we choose the good portion that cap-, not be taken away.

No Mail Delivery Here On Saturday New Regulations Are Received By Kirsch Effective this Saturday, the Decatur post office will be closed to the public all day Saturday and Sunday, no Saturday mail deliveries, either city or rural will be made, and new window hours will be in effect, postmaster Leo Kirsch announced today. Kirsch stated that the new regulations were received in a postal bulletin, as announced recently by postmaster general Summerfield. ; Starting Monday the stamp window will be open from 9 a. m. until 5:30 p. m., for a maximum of 8% hours a day, under the directive. At present the window is open from 8 a. m. until 6 p. m. The money order window will be open from 9 a. m. until 5 p. m. five days a week, instead of from 8 a . m. to 5 p. m. Summerfield has announced that the move is necessary because Congress has not appropriated enough money to run the present service of the post office. However, the new hours will not affect the salaries of permanent employes who are paid yearly wages; it will affect only the hourly wages of temporary or substitute employes. The Decatur post office has 19 permanent employes whose wages are unaffected, and four employes whose wages will be reduced by a reduction in working hours. Effective April 13, money orders will be suspended at Decatur, Berne. Monroe and Geneva, the county’s four first and second class post offices. Preble, Linn Grove, and Pleasant Mills will still be able to issue money orders. Also effective April 29, no third class mail—circulars, printed matter, or small packages under 8 ounces in weight, except packages of medicine, serums, or drugs — will be accepted. Also on that date money order service may be completely suspended. Under the present directive, service will continue as usual at Decatur’s substation at Holthouse store on the highway. It will operate outside the hours directive, and will remain open on Saturday and Sunday. Coßtlaued OB Pace El»fct Pre-School Clinic At Adams Central The annual pre-school clinic of the Adams Central PTA will be held in the new west wing of the school from 8 until 8:30 a.m. Tuesday, April 16, Hugh Tate, assistant superintendent of Adams Central school announced today. The clinic is for all children who will attend the Adams Central school who will be six years old on or before September 30, 1957. Any person having a child entering school this fall should attend the meeting. Doctors, dentists, and optomet-! rists will give physical examinations, and Mrs. Naomi Griffiths, Mrs. Martha Habegger, and Mrs. Eloise Leistner, first grade teachers, will provide information. There is no charge for the clinic.

Ike's Budget Is Scored By GOP Senator Charges Eisenhower Breaking Campaign Economy Promises WASHINGTON (UP) -Republican Sen. Barry Goldwater of Arizona? -Scored President Eisenhower’s budget Monday in one of the sharpest attacks on the President since his reelection. Goldwater, former chairman of the GOP Senate Campaign Committee, charged that the President is "subverting” the national economy and accused Eisenhower of breaking his 1952 campaign promises to- economize, “No faithful public servant... wpuld dare subscribe to such a breach of confidence," he said. Moreover, he slammed Eisenhower's “Modern Republicanism” as a “splinterized concept of Republican philosophy” desinged to have a “rather brief tenure.” Goldwater was the latest of a number of Republicans to attack the President’s 72 billion dollar budget Also, there have been other signs among a number of Republicans of disenchantment with the Eisenhower program. "Many Republicans teamed with southern Democrats in the House last week to cut appropriations for the Labor and Health, Education and Welfare departments. And only Monday the two top GOP members of the House Rules Committee — Reps. Leo E. Allen (Ill.) and Clarence J.. Brown (Ohio) — joined with southern Democrats to block action in effect on the administration’s Civil Rights Bill until next month. Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson seized the opportunity of Goldwater’s attack on Eisenhower to compare the new budget of “the so-called Great Crusader” with the peacetime high of nine billion dollars under President Roosevelt and 39 billion dollars under President Truman. Goldwater said both he and the President campaigned in 1952 against big federal spending and promised to cut the budget. For four years, he said, the admlms(CbbHbbc4 OB Paste Flvo) Berne Youth Found Dead At Bloomington Jomes H. Sprunger Found Dead Today BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (UP) — James H. Sprunger, 28, student editor of the Indiana University Daily Student, was found dead lying across his bicycle Tuesday. The body was sprawled across the bike in an alley between the campus and his rooming house. Sprunger, a native of Berne, Ind., used the bicycle to commute from his rooming house to the campus. Authorities said he apparently was the victim of a “seizure.” Coroner Neil Baxter was investigating lhe death. Sprunger was a graduate journalism student at the university. His mother, Mrs. Naomi H. Sprunger, lives in Berne and his sister, Barbara Ann, is a student at JU. ________ Custer Infant Dies At Birth Monday Laura Lee Custer, infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Burdette Lee Custer. 453 Winchester street, died at birth at 7 o’clock Monday evening at the Adams county memorial hospital. The mother was the former Miss Martnell Joyce Lehman. Surviving in addition to the parents are the grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. D. Burdette Custer of Decatur, and Mr. and Mrs. Horace Lehman of Berpe. Graveside services, conducted, by the Black funereal home, were held this morning at the Decatur cemetery, the Rev. Virgil W. Sexton officiating.

Progress On Sewage Project Discussed Engineer Speaks To Industrial Division Progress in Decatur's sewage disposal project was discussed at a meeting of the industrial division of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce Monday noon at the Decatur Youth and Community Center. John Ward, engineering consultant for the Consoer-Townsend engineering firm, which has drawn up plans and specifications for the treatment plant, Was the main speaker. Under the terms of the granting of $250,000 in federal assistance, Decatur will have the treatment plant under construction by Aug. 1. Hie federal grant, formally accepted by the city of Decatur, is the largest grant to be given to any Indiana community under the federal aid program to assist in the construction of sewage, disposal plants. It was the maximum amount which could be received. The total estimated cost of the project, including tiie plant and the two interceptor sewers, is sl,176,000, which means the city must raise about $900,000 in a bond issue to finance construction. Ward explained that the cost might be lower than the estimate. The exact cost will be determined in the contract bids. , The city will advertise for bids In the near future. Two contracts will be awarded, one on the plant itself and another on the interceptor sewers. Ward pointed, out that the plans are so designed as to allow for population growth at the current rate. It is based on the expected 1970 population. He explained that the city will probably retire bond issues by revenue from rates which will be determined on the basis of water consumption. He stated that a previous rough estimate made by the engineering company indicated the sewage rate at about 100 percent of the water rate but increases in the water rate and the federal grant will probably bring down the percentage. Rates will be determed exactly only after a detailed rate study to be made for the bond issue. Ward said that a plant the size of Decatur’s proposed. treatment system can be effectively operated by three men at a total cost per year of about $16,000. The treatment plant jvUt take care of only the dry-wekther flow through Decatur’s sewage system. Ward pointed out that during a hard rain the sewage is sufficiently diluted as to make treatment unnecessary. Decatur Teacher Is Granted Fellowship Dailey Will Attend School This Summer Harry Dailey, instructor of science and mathematics at Decatur high school, has received a fellowship, to Colorado College, Colorado Springs, it was learned today. Dailey, who has been in the Decatur school system for 19 years, will attend the western college from June 16 to August 9. The fellowship is in science and all instructors attending the summer term will receive living and travel expense for their families. The fellowships ark granted through the various participating colleges by the National Science Foundation. Dailey is in his 19th year as an instructor in the Decatur school system and all but three have been in high school, where he conducts classes in both mathematics and science. The special education grant was in science and each instructor granted a fellowship can have the option of living at the host college or off-campus. Dormitory apartments are available for an entire family. Selection of Dailey was made following an examination of all applicants, the acceptance letter (CntUaM ea Face Five)

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Reduction Os Mail Service Ordered Today House Republican Leader Says Extra Money Forthcoming WASHINGTON W — H o u « e Republican Leader Joseph W. Martin Jr. predicted Tuesday that Congress will give the Post Office Department enough extra money to prevent threatened service cutbacks. . Martin made the prediction after a White House conference between President Eisenhower and Republican legislative leaders. The Post Office Department asked 47 million dollars im additional money to carry it through * the rest of the fiscal year ending June 30. A House Appropriations subcommittee voted only 17 million dollars. The full committee okayed the smaller amount but agreed to consider on Friday whether to vote the rest asked by the department. Postmaster General Arthur E. Summerfield meanwhile ordered reduction of service, including elimination of Saturday mail de< ■ liveries, to start next weekend if. the full 47 raUlw dollars > not forthcoming. - Martin said he believes the House will restore ‘a substantial amount” of the requested appro-' prlation and that curtailment of service will not .prove necessary. ; Despite Martin’s optimism, the Post Office Department went ahead with plans for service cutbacks effective at different dates from next Saturday to April 28. Tuesday’s postal bulletin, which goes to all post offices, contained orders to all field officers, postmasters, and supervisors to “initiate detailed plans at once” to carry out the curtailment orders issued Saturday. The bulletin said that since postal employes’ pay accounts for nearly 80 per cent of the department’s operating expense, it will be necessary to make plans now for rescheduling work periods under the retrenchment orders. The orders will, of course, be cancelled if Congress comes through with the requested money. Representatives of 450,000 post office employes called at the White House Monday to affirm support of Summerfield In his fight with Congress. The heads of six postal employes unions told Jack Anderson, an aide to President Eisenhower, that they are “solidly behind" Summerfield. They said Anderson replied that the President also is “solidly behind” his Cabinet officer. 7 Summerfield is seeking the extra 47 million dollars to carry the post office through June 30. He has threatened to curtail postal service sharply unless he gets it. At the same time, Rep. Robert L. F. Sikes (D-Fla.) accused Summerfield of “making a whipping boy of Congress to cover his own shortcomings.’’ He said the American people are not being told that Summerfield was given adequate funds to run ♦he Post Office Department and has failed to live within his budget. “There is poor management on his part for which he wants to shift the blame to Congress,” Sikes said. , ■ St. Mary's River Reported Receding Last night’s freezing temperatures may have been uncomfortable but they'had at least ona beneficial effect. They were responsible for the receding of St. Mary’s river, which went down almost a foot to below 19 feet. It was predicted yesterday that the river would rise abdve 20 feet today but this will probably not occur. Serious flooding has apprrently been averted although the river will probably rise again when the current ice and snow thawo. , ...