Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 101, Decatur, Adams County, 29 April 1957 — Page 1

Vol. LV. No. 101.

PLEASANT MILLS’ TOP SCHOLARS X- MB I » jy fl k la A M VALEDICTORIAN and salutatorian for the graduating class of Pleasant Mills high school are David Myers, left, who had an average of 94.96 percent, and Mary Speakman, right, who had an average of 94.55 percent. Both participated in many extra-curricular activities during their high school years. They will present brief remarks at the commencement exercises Wednesday at 8 p. m. at the high school. '■■■i— in

Claims Proof Union's Funds Stolen By Beck Senate Committee Counsel Says Beck Stole Union Funds WASHINGTON (UP)—The Senate Rackets Committee has a “good deal more" information on Teamster Union chief Dave Beck, committee counsel Robert Kennedy said Sunday night. Kennedy also expressed confidence the committee could prove that Beck stole $320,000 in Teamster funds. Kennedy, appearing on the NBCTV program “Meet The Press,” was asked if the committee could "prove in a court of law" its accusation that Beck “took" $320,000 in Teamster funds for his own use. “1 think that without question we could prove that Mr. Beck stole.Jtae $320,000.” replied Kennedy. Lot More Information He said the committee has a lot more information on Beck than disclosed in previous hearings and said the Teamster chief will be given “an opportunity to come in and refute” the data “if he wants to.’’ Kennedy said the new matter involves companies in which Beck "had a financial interest that have dealings with the Teamsters Union.” He said the “information that we will develop” will be of interest to the AFL - CIO ' Ethical Pr a cti ce s Committee, which is already considering Beck's case, as well as to the labor movement as a whole and the public. The rackets committee scheduled a public hearing this afternoon to give Earl P. Bettendorf, a Texarkana, Tex., businessman, a chance to explain why he was not indicted along with two Teamster Union leaders accused of accepting money from him. Texan Not Indicted Bettendorf asked to appear after committee chairman John L. McClellan (D-Ark.) said the committee would ask the Justice Department why the Texan was not indicted. Teamster Union business agents Joseph McHugh and Robert Malloy of Scranton, Pa., are under federal indictment for extorting $4,200 from Bettendorf. The committee pressed a search for four long-missing witnesses in its investigation of Beck and his Teamster Union. They are Beck’s son, two of Beck’s wife’s relatives and a Teamster Union auditor. Kennedy said the son and two relatives are wanted for questioning because they hold “prominent roles in certain companies that have had financial dealings” with the Teamsters. Funeral Held Today For Chester Runyon Services were conducted today at the Yager funeral home iff Berne for Chester A. Runyon, 78, owner and operator of a grocery in Linn Grove for the past 32 years. He was also vice-president of the Meshberger Bros. Stone Corp. Runyon, died of a cerebral hemorrhage about 12:30 p.m. Friday in the St. Joseph’s hospital in Fort Wayne, where he had been hospitalized three weeks. Burial was in the Greenwood cemetery, Linn Grove. Runyon was born October 14, 1876 in Minnesota, bift had resided in Adams county most of his life. Surviving are a brother, John L. Runyon, Tonica, 111., and a sister, Mrs. Oscar Meschberjjer, Linn Grove.

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Postal Emergency Termed Blessing Summerfield Speaks At C.C. Convention WASHINGTON (UP) — Postmaster General Arthur E. Summerfield said today that the recent postal “emergency has been a blessing in disguise” because it focused public attention on his department’s problems. Now many more of our citizens understand that their post office must have, everyone’s help if this nation is to enjoy the postal service our people deserve and expect,” Summerfield said. The postal “emergency” he referred to was caused by the recent shortage of funds to keep the Post Office Department operating at full tilt until the beginning of the new fiscal year July L When Congress was slow in giving Summerfield the funds he demanded, he began making drastic curtailments in service. The cuts were called off when Congress came through with the money. Summerfield addressed the 45th annual meeting of the U.S. Chamdent, John S. Coleman, voice a plea that labor "be friends” with management and stop advocating legislation “that would huH business.” He said “it is foolishness” for labor and management “to work at cross purposes.” Coleman also urged labor ’to clean its house of corruption. He said labor is "standing before the bar of public opinion” as a result of the Senate rackets committee investigation. Highlights of other addresses to the chamber: —Charles J. Haugh, vice president of Travelers Insurance Co., said private insurance companies alone could not cover the “losses of astronomical proportions” that would result if an atomic reactor got outo f control and spread deadly fallout over a wide area. Haugh conceded that it is “improbable” that a runaway reactor would cause a great disaster, but it might happen, he said. —O.B. Jesness, head of the agricultural economics department of the University of Michigan, said the current government farm price support program is treating the effects rather than the cause of the farmer’s plight. He said prices "are not the cause of the agricultural dilemma” but "factors which influence prices.” ing heard the chamber’s presiEarlier, delegates to the meetber of Commence. Mrs. Mary E. Young Dies Here Sunday 90-Year-Old Lady i~~ Is Taken By Death Mrs. Mary E. Young, 90, a lifelong resident of Adams county, died at 11:55 a. m. Sunday at 728 Walnut street, following an illness of three months of complications. She had made her home at that address for the past 12 years with her daughter, Mrs. George Hakes, who died Feb. 17 of this year. “ She was born in Adams county July 16, 1866, a daughter of Mr and Mrs. Albert Hamrick, and was married 'to Frank Young March 5, 1886. Her husband preceded her in death. Mrs. Young was a member of the Union U. B. church. Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Jess Pickering of Willshire, O.; four grandchildren; seven greatgrandchildren, and a halflbrother, Warren Hamrick of Fort Wayne. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p. m. Tuesday at the Gillig. & Doan funeral home, the Rev. Paul D. Parker officiating. Burial will be in the Tricker cemetery. Friends may can at the funeral home unlit time of the services.

King Hussein Returns From Saud Parleys May Bring On New Power Alignment | . For Middle East By WALTER LOGAN United Press Staff Correspondent Jordan’s King Hussein returned , today to his capital of Amman from talks with anti-Communist King Saud of Saudi Arabia -that could lead to a new alignment of 1 power in the Middle East. An Amman dispatch said a “major announcement" was expected there later in'the day—possibly an agreement for a new four-power Arab “summit” conference to try to reunify Mideast policies after Jordan’s upheaval. But whether the four - power solidarity of Jordan, Egypt, Syria and Saudi Arabia could continue in the same form as before appeared doubtful. A Jerusalem dispatch said that only Saud’s intervention saved Jordan from being carved up by its neighbors. * The Jerusalem dispatch said 'informed observers there believed King Saud had warned the Syrian and Egyptian delegates . which visited him in Mecca this weekend that the United States Intended to intervene militarily if they tried to tear Jordan apart. Round of Talks Syria was reported apprehensive that Jordan reach an agreement with the West—a move that could encourage the pro-Western elements* now suppressed in Syria. Cairo dispatch* said Egypt and Syria were anxious to keep Jordan within their neutralist fold despite Hussein's move toward the West. Hussein flew Sunday to Riyadh, political center of Saudi Arabia, for talks with the king whose Saudi troops backed up Hussein at height of Jordan's crisis and even helped maintain order in the troubled area on the west bank of the Jordan River. His visit came just one day after Syrian President Shukri El Kuwat--1 li awj Wlpg CmdF. Ali Sgbry qf Egypt, chief political adviser to. President Gamal Abdel Nasser, returned home from their talks with Saud. Reports circulating in Amman said Kuwatli had proposed another “summit” conference but that Saud wanted to consult with Hussein before committing himself. All are bound together in military pacts, and Saudi Arabia, Syria and Egypt are pledged to protect Jordan from outside invasion. Israel Posed Threat Throughout the Jordan crisis the threat of military action by Israel hung over the Arab nations. An Israeli Foreign Office spokesman said Sunday Israel take action if the Arab states try to change Jordan's boundaries. But Israeli Ambassador Abba Eban said on a television broadcast at the same time Jordan need have no fear .of an attack from Israel — that Israel favors the “preservation of Jordan’s “integrity and stability.” Israeli sources today expressed new fear ot border disturbances with Jordan. They said King Hussein may have to stage provocaiLuntinuM on Pace Six) Hartford Graduate 4H Exercises Tuesday Kokomo Educator To Give Address Commencement exercises for the seniors of the Hartford Center high school win held at 8 o’clock Tuesday at the school gymnasium. ’ O. M. Swihart, superintendent of the Kokomo city schools, will deliver the commencement address, speaking on "Let Yourself Grow.” The class has two valedictorians this year. Miss Alice Zuercher and Robert Biberstein, and the salutatorian is Fred Grogg They will also deliver their addresses durnig the graduation rites. Members of the grduating class will be presented by Max O. Stanley, school principal. The graduates are Larry Gene Dubach, Robert Biberstein, William Augsburger, Vera Neuenscbwander, Lauanna Kare Affolder Larry Lee Dubach, Frederick Earl Grogg, Carl Hugh Moore, Dean William Stahly, Robert Allen Wagley .and Alice Faye Zuercher. Baccalaureate services were held at the school gym Sunday night with the Rev. Robert Magary, pastor of the West Missionary church, delivering the sermon. INDIANA WEATHER Fair north, partly cloud south tonight and Tuesday. A little cooler tonight. Low tonight. Low tonight 38-44 north, 4445 south. High Tuesday in the 70s. Sunset 7:87 p.m., sunrise Tuesday 5:48 a.m.

Decatur, Indiana, Monday, April 29, 1957.

Congressional Leaders Find Strong Sentiment For Budget Reduction t ..

► - - , t • i Eisenhower To. End Georgian Trip Tuesday f Planning Return To Washington From t Georgia Vacation AUGUSTA, oa. — ICT — Fresi--1 dent Eisenhower prepared tbday ‘ to wind up his Georgia vacation and return to Washington without ’ the cold and cough that nagged at him most of the winter. After nearly two weeks of golfing and resting in balmy weather ’ here, the President appeared to ' be well receovered from his cough. He will fly back to Washington Tuesday afternoon. Eisenhower acted on a number , of official papers this morning and i then headed out on the Augusta ’ National Golf course for another round of his favorite sport. He sent to the Senate a list of 1 previously announced nominations, [ including that of Llewellyn E. t Thompson as the new ambassador I to Russia. The President today also: Sent to Congress his first reorganization plan of 1957, trans terr ring to other government agencies . the remaining functions of the Ref construction Finance Corp. The >/ RFC has been in a process fol .. liquidation for several years and ) the plan sent to Congress today would formally abolish the RFC. i Submitted to the Senate for rati- • fication a treaty with Japan for t the avoidance of double taxation ■ on operations of the export-import , banks of Japan and the United ’ States. % I Recommende* an Increase of $157,000 in the 1958 budget for the architect of the Capitol, most of this money for a new Capitol powt er plant. The reorganization plan, which i becomes effective in 60 days uni less either house votes specific i disapproval, was largely procedur(Continued on Pace Six) Clinton Hart Dies Suddenly Saturday Funeral Services Tuesday Afternoon Clinton V. Hart, 67, retired farmer who lived three miles south of Decatur, died suddenly at 11:30 o’clock Saturday morning at the Adems county momerial hospital. He had a patient at the hospital since suffering o heart attack last Tuesday, but his death was unexpected. < Born April 19, 1890 in Union township, he was a son of George and Sarah Reed-Hart, and was married to Zelda Schnitz Aug. 24, 1915. Mr. Hart was a member of the First Missionary church. Surviving in addition to the widow are two sons. Myron C. Hart of Decatur route 4, and Ger- . aid H. Hart of Decatur route 5; one daughter, Mrs. Francis Tester of New Haven; 10 grandchildren; one brother, James Hart of Centerville, Mich., and two sisters, Mrs. Glen Hinton of Fort Wayne, and Mrs. Owen Carrier of Dixon, O. One sister preceded him in death. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p. m. Tuesday at the . Zwick funeral home, the Rev. Gerald Gerig officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home until time of the services. 8Bormuth To Induct New Decatur Lions * George W. Bormuth, special representative of Lions International, will be present at Lions club tonight to induct new members, Harry Schwartz, president, announced today: Bormuth, a charter member and past president of the Fort Wayne Central Lions club, is very active in this area organizing new clubs.

Profits Shown By City's Utilities Quarterly Reports Show City Profits The light and powei department and the water department of the city of Decatur each showed profits for the first three months of the year, according to financial statements released recently. L. C. Pettibone, superintendent of the power department, has announced that his department shows an operating net profit of $4,088.42. This amount is 619 percent higher than the profit tor the same three-month period in 1956. A net profit of $10,253 83 is shown in the report from the water de- , partment, which is supervised by Ralph Roop. This is 215 percent over the 1956 Initial quarter. Power Department The statement of profit and loss for the power department shows a total of $200,421.44 in operating revenues. These includes $49,252.36 in residence safes, $41,339.50 in r rural sales, $31,062.99 in commer- , cial light, $63,964.83 in commercial , and industrial, power, $2,736.04 in ■ public street and highway lighting, $7,283.63 in sales to other utilities, $4,245.02 in interdepartment- • al sales and $537.07 in customers* - penalties. 1 Operating revenue deductions to- ■ tailing $188,764.64 include $92.- ; 003.38, steam expense; $40,630.56, ‘ diesel expense; $15,629.98, distribu*(tion expense; $2,586.28 accounting r and collecting expense; $6,962.01, • administrative and general ex- ’ pense; $29,003.97, depreciation, and $1,928.46, taxes. ! Other income shown is $10.04, ini come from merchandising; $171.89, revenues from sinking fund and , $31.40, miscellaneous. Income de- , ductions include $4,145.67, interest i on long term debt, and $2,736.04, ; public street lighting donated. The statistical report for the three-month period shows 8,304,000 K.W.H. generated at the steam plant and 2.829,000 K.W.H. generated at the diesel plant. The total amount, 11,133,000, is 1.4 percent less than for the same period in 1956. A total of 8,684.14 tons of coal was consumed at a cost of $59.305.15 and 243,416 gallons of oil, costing $24,128.90, were used. Water Department Operating revenues for the water department total $34,641.23, according to the statement of profit and loss for the first quarter of 1957. These include $31,061.62 in sales to general customers, $3,412.50 -in ( public fire protection and $167.11 ' in customers’ penalties. Operating deductions totalling $24,203.72 include $637.01, source of supply expense; $3,878.74, pumping expense; $10,411.52, purification expense; $1,864.72, transportation and ‘ distribution expense; $2,072.66, accounting and ~ collecting expense; (Continues oa Pare FlveJ Charles W. Myers Dies This Morning Funeral Services To Be Wednesday Charles W. Myers, 88, retired farmer, died early this morning at his home in Harrison township, Van Wert county, 0.. one and one--1 half miles south of Wren. He was born in Willshire township Aug. 9, 1868, a son of George ' and Caroline Koos-Myers, and was married to Sarah Hannon April 1 30, 1896. Mrs. Myers preceded him in death May 23, 1936. 1r ~ Surviving are four sons, Harley MyerS of Wren, Forest, Oren and Boyd Myers, all of Harrison township; one daughter, Miss Ireta Myers of Harrison township; five grandchildren; three great-grand-children, and one 'brother, Al--1 fred Myers of Wren. Seven broth- • ers and two sisters are deceased. 1 Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Wednesday at • the Zwick funeral home, the Rev. O. B. Turner officiating. Burial ’ will be in the Woodland cemetery : at Van Wert. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o’clock ’ this evening until time of the services.

Flood Waters Pouring Over Texas Today At Least 15 Dead, Untold Millions Os Dollars In Damages DALLAS, Tex. (UP)—Nine major rivers and countless streams today poured flood waters over Texas where people now are praying for the rain to stop. Death and destruction in the form of flood-breeding rains, hailstorms and tornadoes has poured from the sky over Texas, only recently a dust bowl, for 10 straight days. The toll today stood at least 15 persons dead and untold millions of dollars in damages. Three persons died Sunday and' the body of another who drowned Saturday was recovered. Hundreds tof families scrambled for high ground as flash floods engulfed their homes. The latest line of disaster ran from Graham, 100 miles west ot Dallas, to the Gulf of Mexico 400 miles away. More Rain Forecast Rain was forecast for every part of the water-logged state today. Virtually the only part of Texas jffwhteh the drought that gripped the state for seven years has not been violently snapped, at least for the time being, is in the Big Bend area west of the Pecos. The yearly average there is about seven inches. Homero Vergara Galindo, 22, and his wife, of Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, were killed by a bolt of lightning as they watched the Rio Grande reach its highest peak in two years. Befhice Lee Goodwin, a 21-year-old Dallas man, waded into overflow waters of the swollen Trinity River and was swept away Sunday. • Dallas County Emergency Corps recovered the body of David Jones 10, who was swept away below the White Rock Lake spillway Saturday night. iVonttanMH' on rar* six) Mrs. Anna Reynolds Dies Al Toledo, 0. ' ■. r. ; Funeral Services .Tuesday Morning Mrs. Anna M. Schumacher Reynolds, 80. a native and former resident of Decatur, died at 7:30 o’clock Saturday evening at her home in Toledo, .0. She had been in failing health for 10 years with complications. — She was born in Decatur Oct. 16, 1876, a daughter of Frank and Phoebe Schumacher. Mrs. Reynolds tfas a membes of St. Frances DeSalles Catholic church in Toledo. Surviving are two brothers Frank and William Schumacher, both of Decatur, and one sister, MrsMargaret Brown of Decatur. Four children, one brother and one sister preceded her in death. Funeral services will be corn ducted at 9 a.m. Tuesday at St. Mary’s Catholic church here, the Very Rev. Msgr. J. J. Seimetz officiating. Burial will be in the Catholic cemetery at Fort Wayne. Friends may call at the Gillig & Doan funeral home until time of the services. Study Appointment Os Commissioner County commissioners Harley Reef and Roland Miller met today for a special session to discuss appointment of a third commissioner to succeed John Kintz, who died recently. Kintz was serving as president of the board of commissioners at the time of his death. His term was to have expired Dec. 31. The two remaining commissioners have the authority to appoint a person to fill the unexpired term. No definite action on the matter was taken this morning.

Says Russia Seeks Weapons' Monopoly Assertion Made By West German Leader BONN, Germany (UP) — West Germany charged Soviet Russia today with seeking a monopoly of nuclear weapons with the aim of permanently enslaving Europe. In a strongly worded statement read to a news conference here, Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano declared that Russia has tremendous superiority in armed forces on the continent. He asserted that it is only the stationing of United States and other NATO forces in Europe that has checked the "Soviet urge to expand." Brentano’s statement replied to a Soviet note handed to the West German ■ embassy in Moscow Saturday night warning the Bonn republic that an atomic conflict , would blast• Germany into "a graveyard.” “My impression,” Brentano said, "is that the main objective of the Soviet Union is to obtain a monopoly as regards the possession of nuclear weapons, so that she may hold this continent in everlasting dependency." Chancellor 'Konrad Adenauer, meanwhile, conferred with members of his cabinet today and will consult with West Germany’s Atlantic Pact allies before replying to the Soviet Union’s latest atomrattling threat. ’ Government sources said Moscow’s warning* that West Germany would become “a cemetery’’ in any new war will be a major topic of discussion at the pact conference that opens here Thursday. The Council of Europe, which meets in Strasbourg today, also is expected to dl&cuss Soviet efforts to intimidate America’s European allies. West Germany is only one of half a dozen countries which have been threatened with H-bomb annihilation if World War 111 should start. The Kremlin, using its customary “carrot and stick” approach, has been alternately threatening West Germany with annihilation and wooing it with talk of a "separate peace” in the cold war. The most recent threat, the second in two weeks, was contained in a note handed to Charge D*Affaires Heinrich Northe in Moscow Saturday. Official sources said Adenauer was “incensed” by the "insulting, impertinent” note. Charles H. Tiernan Is Taken By Death Funeral Services Tuesday Afternoon Charles H. Tieman, 69, of Monroeville route 2, died Saturday at the Parkview memorial hospital, in Fort Wayne, where he had been a patient, one week. He was a native of Adams county and had lived on the farm two miles west of Monroeville for the past 18 years. Mr. Tieman was a member of St. Peter’s church, Decatur route 3. Surviving are the widow, Hattie; one son, Eugene Tieman of Monroeville route 2; his mother, Mrs. Louise Gerke Tieman, of near Decatur;-■< one brother, Harold Tieman of Decatur; one sister, Mrs. Henry Bleeke of Cedarsburg, Wis., and one granddaughter. Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p. m. Tuesday at the Marquart funeral home in Monroeville, and at 2 p. m. at St. Peter’s church, the Rev. F. W. Droegemueller officiating. Burial will be in the church.. cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home until time of the services. n Late Bulletins . AMMAN, Jordan (UP) —The U. 8. government today offered Jordan 10 million doltars in economic aid, the U. 8. embassy announced.

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Find Voters Strongly For t Budget Slash Congress Returns To Session After . Recess For Easter By UNITED PRESS >.• Congressional leaders said today : they have found sentiment for cutting the federal budget greater than they had realized. “I have never seen such strong demands for economy in the gov- ’ ernment," Senate Democratic 1 Leader Lyndon B. Johnson (Tex.) told newsmen as Congress returned 1 from its 10-day Easter holiday. Johnson and many other mem- ■ bers had a chance to sample voter • sentiment back home during the ; recess. Senate Republican Leader William F. Knowland (Calif.) said he found no “diminution” of the ■ economy sentiment—“if anything, . I find it accentuated.” ; Knowland repeated earlier pre- . dictions that Congress will cut r President Elsenhower’s $71,800,000,000 budget by three billion dollars. Sen. Styles Bridges (N.H.), ’ chairman of the Senate GOP Poli- [ cy Committee, also forecast a _ three-billion-dollar reduction/ Another influential Republican * concrtjssrnan. Ren Richard M, '* Simpson (Fte.), called on Congress to force a cut in government spending by enacting an across- ' the-board tax cut. Simpson is 1 chairman of the Republican Con- : gressional Campaign Committee ' and a member of the Tax-writing House Ways and Means Commit--1 tee. 1 He said that if Congress both. > cuts taxes and reduces appropria- > tions, the administration will cut : actual spending because Eisen--1 bower will not condone deficit ' spending. Other congressional news: Civil Rights: Eisenhower’s civil rights bill made some progress in congressional committees today, ' but there were growing indications it may not be enacted into law this year. Chairman Howard W. Smith (D-Va.) of the House Bules Committee said that group would begin hearings on the bill later this week. But with large numbers of opponents wanting to be heard, it appeared doubtful the bill would reach the House floor for another two weeks. In the Senate, the Judiciary Committee made the civil rights legislation pending business, but under a pro- ' cedure that will allow it to be laid (Continuvo uu pimi« County Councilmen In Special Session Appropriations Ara Studied By Council A breath-o-lizer,‘ a device for measuring thb degree of intoxication, was demonstrated this morning in the initial part of a two-day special session of the county council. The demonstration was presented by sheriff Scott of Jay county at the request of Adams county sheriff Merle Affolder, who is seeking appropriation of $595 for the purchase of the equipment. The breath-o-lizer accurately indicates the statp of intoxication of a person who is suspected of being under the influence of alcohol. Sheriff Scott stated that it has been used successfully in Jay county and that it has the endorsement of the Jay county bar association;* Sheriff Affolder has stated that such equipment is necessary to maintain modern methods at investigation. The council is meeting to consider additional appropriations totalling $64,557. The largest amount requested is the $50,000 sought by the county commissioners for the construction of the proposed new county highway building. All of today’s session will be spent studying the various requests and no action of approval or disapproval of any of the requested items is expected until Tuesday. «