Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 85, Decatur, Adams County, 10 April 1957 — Page 1

Vol. LV. No. 85.

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PRESIDENT EISENHOWER has named America's top-ranking lady diplomat Frances E. Willis (left) as Ambassador to Norway, and Scott McLeod (right), State Department Security Chief to be Ambassador to Ireland. McLeod is a one-time FBI agent, and Miss Willis is a veteran in the foreign service which she joined in 1927.

Arabs Protest U.S. Sending In Oil Tanker Israel Neighbors Planning Protest Os U.S. Violation By WALTER LOGAN United Press Staff Correspondent Israel's Arab neighbors were reported preparing a formal protest Wednesday to the United States against its “violation" of Arab territorial waters by sending an American tanker to the Israel port of Eilat on the Gulf of Aqaba. The development, reported in Cairo by Egypt’s semi-official Middle East News Agency, appeased to write finis to American diplomatic efforts to reach a settlement with Egypt on future operation of the Suez Canal. All indications were the Suez dispute which touched off last ’. falfs shooting war in the Middle East would bounce back to the U.N. Security Council. Reports at U.N. headquarters in New York said France was bringing pressure on the United States , and its other Western Allies to call a Security Council meeting,, perhaps Friday. A dispatch from Jerusalem said Israel would ask France to intervene in the Security Council against Egyptian threats to sink any Israeli ship trying to use the • Suez Canal. Paris dispatches dismissed the threats as “blustering and merely a sign of fright and impotence rather than resolve.” Although the Suez Canal was open—on Egyptian terms—tension was on the increase again. An outburst of charges and countercharges by Israel and the Arab nations were almost back at the intensity of the days before Israel’s Sinai Desert campaign. Egypt, for the second day in a row, warned Israel against any “provocative aggressions." Israel countered with the assertion the Egyptian statement was made to take the emphasis over Israel’s complaints of renewed Arab Fedayeen commando raids. Both Israel and Syria reported minor border incidents in northern Israel. Israel reported a series of small raids by Jordanians who slipped into Israel at night and made off with a herd of sheep in one instance and battled an Israeli patrol in another. ‘ — The Middle East News Agency in reporting Arab plans to protest to the United States did not name the nations involved. They presumably would be Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Jordan which touch s the Gulf of Aqaba and have declared it Arab territorial water. The protest would be against arrival at Eilat of the American tanker Kern Hills on April 7 with what the Egyptian agency said was a cargo of 16,000 tons of oil from Iran. There were hints the Egyptian bloc would protest to Iran against the use of the oil. Egyptian newspapers warned earlier this week that America and Britain were en(Wßtlaaed ?■*« INDIANA WEATHER Increasing cloudiness tonight with some rain likely northwest and west central sections late tonight. Warmer tonight. Thursday cloudy with occasional light rain north, possibly mixed with snow extreme north and showers or thundershowers south portion. Turning colder Thursday. Low tonight 34-40. High Thursday ranging from the low 40s northwest to the 50s southeast. Sunset 7:18 p. n»., sunrise Thursday 6:14 a- m.

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Fort Wayne Council For Daylight Time Urges Citizens To Stay On Fast Time FORT WAYNE (UP)-The Fort Wayne City Council adopted a resolution Tuesday night which may set a pattern for Eastern Indiana areas in observing daylight saving methods without actually violating a new state’law. The council asked businesses and residents of Indiana’s third largest city to go along with the letter of the new law, enacted by the 1957 Legislature, which calls for clocks to be on Central Standard Time seven months and Daylight Saving Time five months each year. The resolution contained a clause saying neither the council per meant to “contravene or violate the provisions" of the 1957 time law. But it urged everyone to operate under a time schedule an hour earlier than normal in the seven cool months so that, in effect, the city would operate on d.s.t even though clocks and watches conformed to the law. Observers saw the possibility that other cities in the eastern half of Indiana, which have observed year-round d.s.t. in recent years, would model similar resolutions after Fort Wayne's. This would create a solution to the time problem without violating the law, taking a chance on sending officials to jail, and jeopardizing state fund distributions. The resolution “requested” that "all local citizens, businesses and industries” in addition to official offices “open and close their offices and places of business" during the seven-month period of Central Standard Time “one-hour earlier than normal." This action would give Fort Wayne the same hours of daylight it has had under more than two years of Eastern Standard Time. But if business and private citizens do not wish to conform to the resolution and keep their clocks on e.s.t. the year round nothing apparently can be done. (Coatiaued aa Pace Ftva)

Mrs. Raymond Crist Dies Last Evening Monroe Ladv Dies Ater Long Illness Mrs. Ada J. Crist, 58, wife of Raymond Crist of Monroe, died at 5:15 o’clock Tuesday evening at the Adams county memorial hospital following a year’s illness. She was born in Adams county June 21, 1898, a daughter of Charles H. and Sarah M. Mann-Lammi-man, and was a lifelong resident of Monroe. She was married to Raymond E. Crist, June 30, 1923. Mrs. Crist was a member of the Monroe Methodist church, the W. S. C. S. of the church, and the W. C. T. U. Surviving in addition to her husband are two sons, Quentin Crist, of Monroe, and Airman 1-C Kermit C. Crist, stationed in Honolulu: two brothers, Charles man of Waynedale, and John Lammiman of Bay City, Mich.; and three sisters, Mrs. Roy Runyon of Decatur, Mrs. Hugh Perner of Omaha, Neb., and Miss Nell Lammiman of Warren, O. Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p.m. Friday at the Zwick funeral home and at 2 p.m. at the Monroe Methodist church, the Rev. Willis Gierhart 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.

Report Shows Increase In ♦ j* Food Prices Retail Food Prices Higher Last Decade, .Farm Income Lower WASHINGTON (UP)-Congres-sional investigators have drafted a report showing that retail food prices increased 16 per cent in the last decade while prices paid farmers for the same items fell 14 per coat. The report—not yet made public —was prepared by the newly created consumer study subcommittee of the House Agriculture Committee. Subcommittee Chairman Victor L. Anfuso (D-N.Y.) said Tuesday night it will be the basis for a new round of investigations of dood industry prices. Anfuso, who represents a Brooklyn district without a single farm, is the only big-city merhber of the congressional farm bloc.

The group’s first report, it was learned, will say that the annual food costs of the average city family rose from 81,000 in 1947't0 81,500 in 1956. Two Factors Involved Os the 8500, increase, farmers received 845 or about 9 per cent, the report adds. Food processors, handlers, retailers and other marketing agencies got 8400, or about 80 per cent. The remaining 855 went for imported foods and fish. The increase in marketing charges was attributed to two factors — new services for consumers in the form of more prepared and frozen foods and higher marketing costs. Thb report did not “evaluate the factors which have increased retail costs.” Nordid it go into “related market activities such as the use of trading stamps, corporation mergers” and other recent food industry developments. ‘“lhese investigations will be the next phase of the subcommittee’s ; activities,” the report said. Firm ntcßS r»n Anfuso said in an interview he i did not intend to stage a “punitive expedition" or find a "villain” in the food field. He hopes, however, . by questioning food industry leaders to develop methods of increasing marketing efficiency and reducing food marketing costs. He said public hearings will probably begin "in about a month.” Other highlights of the subcommittee report: . “ —Retail prices of cereals and bakery products rose 34 per cent between 1947 and 1956 while farm wheat prices dropped 7 per cent. —Farm prices of milk are off 16 per - cent from their 1952 peak while retail prices of dairy products are down only 3 per cent —Meat prices on the farm fell 29 per cent from 1947-56 while retail prices fell 5 per cent. —Despite the rise in family food spending, the average dty family last year spent about 32-34 per cent of its after-taxes income for food—about the same as 10 years earlier. Rising wages apparently kept (Continue ,n Pas* 8U) Funeral Friday For James H. Sprunger

Death Is Attributed To Brain Concussion Funeral services will be held at 2 o’clock Friday afternoon at the First Mennonite church in Berne for James H. Sprunger, 28, of Berne, who collapsed and died Tuesday morning while riding his bicycle to the campus in Bloomington, where he was a post graduate student in journalism at Indiana University. Dr. Neil Baxter, Monroe county coroner, attributed death to a brain concussion suffered when Sprunger fell from his bicycle. Baxter said the young Berne man apparently fainted while riding to the campus, suffering the concussion as he fell to the ground. An Indiana University official said Sprunger reportedly had been having “periods of blackouts’’ for several months. He had been appointed editor of the Indiana Daily Student only two weeks ago. The young man was born in Fort Wayne and had resided in Berne since 1945. He graduated from the Berne high school and served in the Army from 1952 to 1954. His father, Clifton H. Sprunger, editor of the Berne Witness, died five years ago. Surviving are his mother and one sister, Barbara Ann Sprunger, also a post graduate student at I. U. The body was brought to the Yager funeral home at Berne today. The Rev. Olin H. Krehbiel will officiate at the services Friday, and burial will be in the MRE cemetery at Berne.

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Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, April 10, 1957

Eisenhower In Defense Os Program In Face Os Increasing Criticism

Democrats May Force Measure To Cut Taxes • Ji Public Demanding Budget Reduction, a Some Tax Relief WASHINGTON (UP) — Secretary of the Treasury George M. Humphrey is reported to have heard some Dutch uncle talk from one of the administration’s erstwhile Democratic friends in Congress. He was told in effect the administration has painted itself into a political comer by its handling of the federal budget this year. He was also told there is a very good possibility the result could be passage of a Democratic-spon-sored bill this year to cut personal income Aaxes, effective next Jan. 1, despite administration opposition. The reasoning behind this line of thought runs this way. President Eisenhower startled Congress and the country by his record peacetime budget of almost 72 billion dollars for the coming fiscal year- that starts July 1. Public Demands Cuts . Then the President himself invited Congress to make cuts before stepping out in recent weeks as a more vigorous champion of his budget. Meanwhile, Humphrey and other administration spokesmen also encouraged Congress to shave the budget requests Public demands began to pour into the House and Senate mail boxes for a reduced budget and lower taxes. The House began hacking away at appropriations bills. Although the Senate has to be heard from, rumbles now are coming from House Democrats about the possibility of passing a tax reduction bill before Congress quits this summer. This probably would come in the form of a measure to raise the individual income tax exemption for each taxpayer and dependent from the present 8600 to 8700, beginning next Jan. 1. Tax Reduction Pending? A tax cut of that amount would cost the treasury about 82,500,000,000 tn a full year, although the cost would be less than half that figure in the fiscal year beginning July 1. There have been hints from Democratic leaders that they would like to see the appropriate b rtailsis fml tbyem Id aoo t tions bills trimmed by a total of more than three billion dollars, with half of the saving going to debt reduction and the rest to tax relief. » In these circumstances, it is presumed a tax reduction bill would be hard to stop. The Democrats visualize a Re-publican-sponsored drive for tax reduction next year and are in no mood to let the GOP get the jump on this ■ issue. - - — Hoosier Fisherman Is Drowning Victim BICKNELL (IP) — Roy Junior Nichols. 24, Emison, drowned Tuesday night while fishing in a washout near his home. Authorities said he apparently lost his footing when he tried to straighten a tangled line.

Lenten Meditation (By Rev. A. M. Christie, Mt. Pleasant Church) “A CONSTANT COMPANION” Gen. 28:15 Here Jacob comes into direct touch with his God, for the first time, and unexpectedly. As special revelations have been made to his grandfather and to his father, so he himself learns from the mouth of Jehovah that he is in the direct line of promises. At the very moment in which he leaves the land promised to his posterity, he is assured of his return under divine protection and of the fulfillment of the will of God through him. God here, himself, is giving assurance to Jacob that hence- ' forth he is to be recognized the vehicle of the Promises. The Ladder was a hint that the Promises would culminate in abridging Heaven and Earth. Jesus said that He was the ladder.

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The Rev. I. Lynd Esch, president of Indiana Central College, Indianapolis, will be the guest speaker at the union Good Friday services in Decatur Friday, April 19.

Union Good Friday Services April 19 Indiana Central's President Speaker The annual union Good Friday servcies, sponsored by the Decatur ministerial association, will be held at the Zion Evangelical and Reformed church from 12 noon until 3 o'clock Friday, April 19. There will be three one-hour services, with a brief organ interlude between each service.

The Music section of the Decatur Woman’s club will sing a part of the cantata, “Calvary,” by Henry Wessel, during the second hour. The Rev. William C. Feller will assist in the cantata, which will be directed by Miss Helen Haubold, music supervisor in the Decatur public schools. Guest speaker each hour will be the Rev. I. Lynd Esch, Ph. D., president of Indiana Central College, Indianapolis. Dr. Esch, a native of Pennsylvania, has been president of Indiana Central since 1945. He joined the executive training department of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. and completed a three-year couse in business administration and industrial engineering in teaching, writing, and research at .the same school. la ,; . He resigned his professorship to enter the ministry in 1933. During 12 years in the ministry in California he completed academic work for his bachelor’s, master’s and doctor’s degrees. He served as pastor at Oakland in 1933-36, San Diego 1936-38, and Los Angeles 1938-45, assuming office at Indiana Central March 1, 1945. Hie committee in charge of the Good Friday service is composed of the Rev. W. H. Kirkpatrick, the Rev. Gerald Gerig and the Rev. John E. Chambers. Local Lady's Mother Is Taken By Death Mrs. Minnie Rose, 80, mother of Mrs. Oscar Bieberich of this city, died at 7:20 p.m. Tuesday at a hospital in Detroit, Mich., where she resided. Mrs. Rose had visited her daughter on numerous occasions. Also surviving are five sons, two other daughters and several grandchildren, including Roger and Carol Bieberich. Funeral services and .burial will be held at Detroit Friday.;

Expect Senate Approval For Com Measure Final Senate Vote Is Expected Late Today Or Thursday WASHINGTON (UP)-Supporters and opponents of a bill to increase corn acreage tnis year predicted Wednesday the Senate will approve it by a narrow margin. A final Senate vote on it was expected late Wednesday or Thursday. The predictions of Senate passage indicated the measure had picked up support since last weekend when its advocates were gloomy about its chances. Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey (DMten.), chief sponsor of the legislation, told newsmen “I think we will pass it in the Senate.” He also said he believes its chances for House approval are 50-50, although two similar bills recently were rejected there. Sen. George D. Aiken (R-Vt), an opponent, conceded the Senate may pass it—but “without enthusiasm because it is unworkable.” . And, “even if the House also goes , along, “there is no chance of it becoming law,” he said, “The President couldn’t sign a bill which directed the secretary of agriculture to do the impossible.” The bill would increase this year’s corn acreage in the socalled commercial area—the main corn belt—from about 37 million to 51 million acres. But farmers would have to put into the soil bank an acreage equal to 15 per cent of their com allotments to be eligible for price supports. The support price would remain at 81.36 a bushel in the commercial area, but it would be increased from 81.02 to 81.14 a bushel elsewhere where there are no acreage allotments. Soil bank costs for 1957 would be increased an estimated 100 mili lion dollars to a total of 300 million dollars for taking com land out of production this year. The administration and the American Farm Bureau Federation withdrew their support after Congress failed to approve it before corn planting got well underway and farmers had signed up for the soil bank under the present program. However, Humphrey Tuesday read to the Senate communica(UoauouM on rac* «x> Mrs. Olive Knittie Dies This Morning 90-Yeor-Old Lady Is Taken By Death Mrs. Ollie Knittie, 90, died at 1:50 o'clock this morning at her home on Decatur route 5, a few . hours after she suffered a cerebral hemorrhage. She was bom May 17, 1866, a daughter of Robert and Rebecca Brettson - Baxter. Her husband, George Knittie, preceded her in death in 1932. Mrs. Knittie was a member of the Mt. Victory United Brethren church. ■Surviving are two sons, Gregg and Glen Knittie, both of near Decatur; two daughters, Mrs, Hazel Zimmerman and Mrs. Opal Ainsworth, both of Convoy, O.; one brother, H. E. Baxter of Convoy; 23 grandchildren; 56 greatgrandchildren and eight great- ' great-großdchildrem TWo sons, one daughter, Wp brothers and three , sisters preceded her in death. Funeral services will be conducted at 10:30 a7m. Saturday at the Mt. Victory United Brethren , church, the Rev. Carlyle Seiple officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call : at the Black ftmeral home after 2 ] p.m. Thursday until 9:30 a.m. Sat- ] urday, when the body will be rer , moved to the church to lie in statg until time of the services. The casket will not be opened after : the services.

Resigns ’ < 1 J n w < pB,.W'OSIVJ ■R ; O. M. McGeath " McGeath Resigns As Director Os Center Hired As Director At Center Opening O. M. McGeath, managing direc* tor of the Decatur Youth Jmd Community Center, announced today that he had submitted his resignation Tuesday as director to take a position with a catering firm in Toledo. O. McGeath has been director since the building was opened two years ago. McGeath’s resignation is effective April 27, and he will start May 1 in his new position. The city board of recreation accepted his resignation with regert and with many expressions of appreciation for his work in Decatur, organizing and planning the activities for the center for both youth and adult groups, Miss Frances Dugan, secretary of the city recreation board, said this morning.” FcGeath’s devotion and good will in his complicated job won for him a host of friends here,” she added. J. Ward Calland, president of the Decatur Memorial Foundation Inc, expressed regert at losing the services of McGeath at the center, and wished him every success in his new position. Calland stated that he felt that McGeath had done an outstanding job in managing the (Continued on Pare Six) Congress Uncertain About Postal Cuts House Committee Will Meet Friday WASHINGTON (UP)— Congress Wednesday was uncertain just how fast it will have to move to keep Postmaster General Arthur E. Summerfield from cutting postal services. Summerfield has ordered drastic postal service cuts including an end to Saturday deliveries unless Congress gives his department an emergency 47-million-dollar appropriation. He reiterated Tuesday the cuts will go into effect Saturday "if the money is not forthcoming” by then. But he and the department did not explain how it interpreted the word "forthcoming.” “We will have to wait developments and make certain that they meet the requirements of the situation at hand,” a postal spokesman said. ' ’ » The House Appropriations Committee plans to meet Friday to reconsider the emergency appropriation request. But even if it approves most or all of it which is generally considered likely the House would not be able to act on it for three days except by unanimous consent. A committee spokesman said it wasn’t clear whether Summerfield would consider the funds “forthcoming” it just the committee approved them. However, he said the Post Office Department has 649 million dollars left to operate with and does not have to curtail services immediately. He said the extra 47 million dollars would not be used until the last few days of the current fiscal year in June.

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Both Parties Critical Os Ute Program Defends Frograms Against Criticism Os Conservatives WASHINGTON (UP)-President Eisenhower Wednesday strongly defended the programs of his administration against criticism by conservatives in Congress—Republicans and Democrats alike. Eisenhower told his news conference that this government cannot revert to the theories and . practices of 1890. A RepublicanBenjamin Harrison—was president in 1890. The President said he did not believe that the difficulties encountered by some basic administration recommendations in Congress reflected a dimunition in his own political power due to the automatic prohibition against his seeking another term. He stated his beliefs at some length after a reporter told him his recommendations were running ' into stormy' congressional weather among Republicans as well as ‘ Democrats. ; A reporter specifically mentioned J the statement by Sen. Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz.) that the administration’s big budget for fiscal 1958 represented a betrayal of the peoj pie’s trust. Eisenhower mentioned no one by name. But he said it was plainly f evident that the United States no " longer could limit Itself to the ’ political and governmental prac- ‘ tices of 1890. He said the govern- ' ment must be conducted in the light of national economic and ' world conditions of the present. Negotiating'on Suez He said there is bound to be a clash of ideas and opinions in a society such as ours and that some people obviously become more heated than they should. But he said he believes profoundly in the things his administration has proposed; that he thinks other basic government programs of many years’ standing will not be turned back. Other news conference highlights: —He called for understanding of recent British defense reductions. He said the United Kingdom since World War II had encountered difficulty keeping her economic nose above water and that the world should Understand that the security position of a nation is not always determined wholly by the number of her troops but equally by the state of her economy. -He said U.S.-Egyptian negotia- , tions on the Suez Canal are concinuing and that he hopes for a , satisfactory conclusion. Because of this hope, he said the United States is not prepared at this time to recommend referral of the Suez to the United Nations Security Council. —He continued his week-to-week defense of his big 1958 budget He said it is a terrific amount to extract from the economy and, while some savings might be possible, they can be achieved only by restudy and re-evaluation of the major, more co'stly programs of the government. Knows of Criticism —He thought it was illogical tc (Continued o» ,»*W Five) Decatur Retailers Plan Extra Hours To Easter Shoppers Robert Lane, chairman of the Chamber of Commerce, announced today that Decatur retailers are planning to be open extra hours this week and next for the convenience of Easter shoppers. The stores will be open until 9 o’clock Friday night of this week, in addition to the usual Wednesday and Saturday nights. Next week, the stores will be open Wednesday, Friday and Saturday nights until 9 o’clock, and all afternoon Thursday. The stores will close from 12 noon until 3 p.m. Good Friday, April 19, according to annual custom. The First State Bank has also announced that it will be open all day Thursday, April 18, and will close at noon on Good Friday;