Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 117, Decatur, Adams County, 17 May 1957 — Page 1

Vol. LV. No. 117.

Ordination To Priesthood May 25 ■ ■■ ||k ■• b I® A B 'V .•?.<■' .Ka ... The Ker. John E. Gillig

Rev. Gillig’s Ordination Is Set On May 25 To Be Ordained To Priesthood; first Mass Here May 26 The Rev. John Gillig will be ordained to the holy priesthood for the Foil Wayne diocese by the Most Rev. Leo A. Pursley at 9:30 a.m., Saturday, May 25, in the Catherdral of the Immaculate Conception at Fort Wayne. Rev. Gillig’s first solemn mass will be offered at 10:15 a.m. May 26 at St. Mary’s church, Decatur. He will be assisted by the Very Rev. Msgr. J. J. Seimetz, pastor of St. Mary’s parish, as archpriest; the Rev. Russell Gillig, a cousin of the newly ordained, deacon; the Rev. Carl Eckert, subdeacon, and Donald Gillig, brother and seminarian of the Fort Wayne diocese, faster of ceremonies. The Rev. Ambrose Heimann, CPPS, professor of philosophy and theology at St. Charles Seminary, Carthagena, 0., will preach the sermon. The Decatur men's choir will sing the mass under the direction of the Rev. Lawrence Heimann, CPPS, professor of music at St. Joseph's College. A public reception will be held for Rev. Gillig from 2:30 to 5 p.m. that day at the American Legion home in Decatur. Rev. Gillig, born and reared in Decatur, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Leo T. Gillig- of 612 North Second street. He attended St. Joseph grade school here, graduating in 1944, and received the Holy Name society’s scholarship for boys of his graduating class. He continued his formal education at Decatur Catholic high school, graduating in 1948, again being honored by receiving the highest scholastic award for boys by maintaining the highest average during his four years of high school. While in high school Rev. Gillig was active in school athletics, lectures, plays and co-ordinating program. He gained wide recognition as an outstanding high school athlete. A quote from the Decatur Catholic Hi Light, the school paper, during his senior year read: “A senior with high fating in character, studiousness and personality?' He then entered the diocesan seminary at Wawasee, graduating from there in 195 J, with the late Most Rev. John F. Noll, D. D., presiding at the ceremony. He then took his philosophical and theological studies at St. Meinrad Major Seminary at St. Meinrad. Rev. Gillig, a former Daily Democrat carrier, was awarded the Inland Daily Press Award in 1948 as this newspaper’s -outstandCantlaned Pace Eight INDIANA WEATHER Cloudy with possibly a little rain lingering yet tonight. Saturday becoming partly cloudy, not much temperature change. Low tonight 48 to 54 north, 54 to 60 south. High Saturday ranging from the 50s extreme north to the' low 70s extreme south. Sunset 7:54 p. m., sunrise Saturday 5:28 a. m.

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No Censorship By Agriculture Dept. Rules Changes Made By Ag Department WASHINGTON (UP)-The Agriculture Department has redrafted its rules and regulations to make plain it has no intention of censoring agricultural films and TV rograms. The action was taken after a House information subcommittee accused the department of, in effect, threatening censorship of films and TV programs not following the department’s policy lines. The films and TV shows Involved deal with farming and agriciflture on which the producers request department help and information. Subcommittee Chairman John E. Moss (DrCalif.), in a letter to Secretary of Agriculture Ezra T. Benson, praised the department for the rules changes and its announced “open door” policy on departmental information. Moss told Benson that the changes "specifically exempts news photographers from any possible departmental censorship.” The rules changes also cancelled a prohibition to which the subcommittee objected forbidding any sponsorship of movie or TV films which the department helped produce by manufacturers of alcoholic beverages. The department denied emphatically that it ever intended Jo impose censorship or any restriction on departmental information. But it said that it was perhaps best to alter its regulations to make certain that this was plainly clear. It also said it was pleased to “restate the department’s continuing policy to make information freely available.” Seeking To Improve Conditions In Iran Intentions Revealed By Ruler Os Nation TEHRAN (UP) — The Shah of Iran today announced a campaign to improve living conditions in Iran in a drive to wipe out Communism. He disclosed his intentions in an exclusive interview with United Press. The better - living program will include the setting up of an opposition political party to give the Moslem nation’s 20-million inhabitants a bigger voice in the government. “The people of this country have a right to a better existence and a decent way of life, and it is the responsibility of the government to see that it is achieved,” Shah Mohammed Riza Pahlevi said. The 37-year-old Swiss - educated monarch said a more effective system of collecting taxes and the "proper” use of oil revenues and technical aid from the United States would help to achieve this goal. He said a party system of government soon would begin to operate in the country to allow the people greater lattitude in their own affairs. The formation of an opposition party was announced Thursday.

Hopes Fading For Safely Os Trapped Child Seven-Year-Old 1$ Trapped In Shaft Os Well At Home MANORVILLE, N.Y. (UP)-The last rites of the Roman Catholic Church were administered today to 7- year -old Benny Hooper, trapped for hours in a 21-foot well shaft. Hope for the child’s life faded at noon as his hand—the oily part iwhich had been visible from the top of the shaft—disappeared under sand sifting from the sides of the well. But even as Father Paul Mastalski made the sign of the cross to begin the brief ceremony, workers continued frantic efforts to tunnel to the child’s side from another shaft some 15 feet away. They attempted to drive threefoot lengths of pipe through a lateral tunnel With hydraulic, pumps, but were hampered by the' crumbling sand of the wall supporting the pumps. Earlier efforts to shore the lateral tunnel with wood had failed. Benny fell into the well shaft at 8 o’clock Thursday night. His father had just stopped drilling the hole and had warned the boy and a playmate to stay away from it. Chances Grow Slim The boy’s hand, stretched above his head in the shaft, which narrowed to about 10 inches at the point where he was trapped, was last seen to move at 6 a.m. Dr. Joseph H. Kris, who kept an allnight vigil directing a flow of oxygen to the child, and firemen said they believed Benny was alive at that time. As the fine sand began sifting down, Kris said at 10:30 a.m. the child had only a 20 per cent chance of being alive and “each moment the chances grow slimmer." During the morning a large, in-dustrial-type vacuum cleaner was brought to the scene to »uck out safld from above the youngster. But the doctor and the me department refused to permit its use, fearing it would remove oxygen and loosen more sand. The last physical contact with the child was at 10:30 Thursday night when he grasped briefly a hook which firemen lowered into the hole. His hand slipped off as firemen tried to pull him free. The tragedy drew hundreds of persons to this small Long Island community about 70 miles from New York City. Dad Blames Himself Police were forced to erect an emergency fence around the back porch of the Hooper’s SIO,OOO ranch type home to keep the curious from Coatinuea ob Pane Eight

Handley Favors City Site For Building Favors Proposal Os City Commission INDIANAPOLIS — (IP) — Governor Handley today recommended construction of a new Indiana state office building on a $1,500,000 site rather than on property the state already owns. Handley told the State Office Building Commission “I feel that we should go along with the Mettropolitan Plan Commission” which suggested a site just north of the Statehouse and frowned on a site in Military Park, an area the state owns west of the Capitol. The governor indicated he approves metropolitan planning for the future. He said he was in Lake County this week and saw industrial expansion which he felt was not patterned with a view to the future. “Indianapolis is fortunate in having a plan commission," Handley said. “Let them build the city the way they want it built." The commission met to consider sealed proposals from financial firms on financing construction of a building in line with a bill passed by the 1957'Legislature permitting the state to float bonds or lease and eventually gain title to a structure built privately. Handley also told the commission he favors purchase of an existing building >to consolidate offices of the State Highway Department, now spread over five buildings. Workman Is Killed In Plant Accident , HAMMOND —(W — Frank Mehok, 53, Hammond, died Thursday of a skull fracture sustained when he was struck on the head by a falling part from a crane. Mehok, a welder, wks hurt Wednesday while at work at an industrial plant.

Decatur, Indiana, Friday, May 17, 1957.

Eisenhower Continues Desperate Battle For -B- ( , • Record Budget Passage

Norm Gessert Declines To Give Answer Dave Beck Relative * Takes Refuge With Fifth Amendment * WASHINGTON (UP)-The Senate Labor Rackets Committee charged today that a relative of Dave Beck simultaneously got $50,000 from the Teamster Union payroll and $51,000 from a company selling goods to the union. The relative. Norman Gessert, invoked the Fifth Amendment to this and all other questions the committee shot at him as he began public testimony. He refused to answer 40 questions in the first 10 minutes. Gessert refused even to say that he knew his own attorney, Edward L. Carey, who sat beside him. Gessert would not say that he knew Dave Beck, the committee's biggest target and president, of the Teamsters, the nation’s biggest union, nor his cousin, Mrs. Beck. Salary from Company Committee Counsel Robert F. Kennedy said that Gessert was employed by the Teamsters Unkm from April 15, 1954, until March 31, 1957, receiving $50,903.72 in salary during that time. Kennedy said that Gessert at the same time was employed by Union Merchandising Co., a firm whose principal income derived from sales to the Teamsters Union, and received $51,000 in salary from that company. Kennedy said Union Merchandising Co. is owned by Beck’s friend, Nathan Shefferman, and his son, Shelton Shefferman. Shefferman testified in March that he paid $85,000 of Beck’s bills with union funds. He is a labor consultant for management, with about 300 clients including many of the nation’s largest department stores. Kennedy said Union Merchandising made $200,000 in 1953-55, mostly from sales to Beck’s union. Gessert refused to say whether he played any part in the sale of toy trucks to Teamster locals by Union Merchandising, a deal described in earlier testimony as yielding a $19,500 profit to Beck. Earlier, i Chairman John L. McCBBtlnned ob Pace Eight Eisenhower To Spend Weekend On Farm WASHINGTON —<W President Eisenhower planned to fly to his Gettsyburg, Pa., farm this afternoon of the weekend. ——-— He was expected to return here late Sunday or early Monday.

Mrs. Oma E. Fifer Is Taken By Death Funeral Services Saturday Afternoon The funeral of Mrs. Oma Ellen Fifer, 88. of Bryant, mother of Homer Fifer and Mrs. Myrtle Omlor of Decatur,' will be held at the Limberiost Church of Christ in> Bryant Saturday at 2 p.m., the Rev. Alfred Waller and the RCv. Ward Weisel officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Mrs. Fifer, who had been in poor health for two weeks, died at 4 a.m. Thursday at the home of another son, Earl, in Bryant. She had been living there since the death of her husband, John, Fein ruary 26, 1944. Mrs. Fifer was bom in Bearcreek township, Jay county, March 3, 1869, and lived there all her life. She was the daughter of John and Hannah Trout. She married John Fifer November 7, 1891. Survivors include one sister, Mrs. Maty Macklin,"of Fort Wayne; another son and daughter, Ivan of Muncie and Mrs. Earl Haviland, Portland; nine grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren. The body was taken to the Baird funeral home in Portland.

Stassen And Dulles Will Confer Today ' Will Test Russia's Disarmament Move WASHINGTON (UP)-The United States today began a series of meetings designed to test Russia’s avowed willingness to take a “first stgp” toward East - West disarmament Secretary of State John Foster Dulles scheduled a late afternoon meeting with disarmament adviser Harold E. Stassen upon his return from the London disarmament conference. Stassen was due here following an overnight flight for conferences during a 10-day recess in the London meeting. Stassen is expected to meet later with President Eisenhower and perhaps with the National Security Council which recommends top American security policies. Informants said the administration already is considering a “total reappraisal” in its disarmament policies. This was brought about by Moscow’s recent offer to accept some sort of “open skies” aerial inspection plan along general lines proposed by Eisenhower almost two years ago. The prospect is that the United States will recominend that a start toward disarmament be made in the Siberian-AJaskan-northern Canadian area. This would involve an elaborate aerial inspection plan designed to assure both Russia and the United States that the other is not planning a surprise attack from that area. If such a “test area” works in practice it would be extended to other areas such as Europe. After two months of talks in London by the five-nation United Nations disarmament subcommission the situation stands about this way: , —East and West seem closer together than ever before on the question of conventional arms cuts. —Both sides seem near agreement on a limited “open skies” aerial inspection accord. —The two sides, however, still stand far apart on the key problem of nuclear disarmament The United States, Russia, Britain, France and Canada are represented at the London meeting.

Heart Attack Fatal To County Farmer Elmer Beer Dies At Garrett Thursday Wimer Beer, 59. farmer of near Berne, suffered a fatal heart attack Thursday in Garrett while enroute to Hudson to visit a son. The man, accompanied by his wife, two daughters and two.grandchildren, had stopped in Garrett to shop and had just returned to their automobile preparatory to continue the trip when he suffered the fatal dttsck. He had been afflicted with a heart ailment for approximately 10 years. Born in Monroe township, Mr. Beer was a lifelong resident of the Berne community. He was a member of the St. Luke’s Evangelical and Reformed church at Honduras. Surviving are the widow, Lena; a son, Loren Beer, Hudson; three daughters, Mrs. Robert Presdorf. route 3, LaGrange, Mrs. Raymond Sadler, Fort Wayne, and Janet L., at home; his mother, Mrs. Lisettd Beer, a patient at the Irene Byron hospital in Fort Wayne; nine grandchildren; a brother, Leßoy Beer, route 6, Decatur, and three sisters, Mrs. Albert Walchle and Mrs. John Ebnit, of Fort Wayne, and Mrs. William Bertsch, route 4, Decatur. The body was taken to the Zimmerman funeral home at Garrett, and has since been transferred to the Yager funeral home in Berne, where friends may call after 7 p.m.' today. At noon Sunday, the body will be taken to the church at Honduras for services at 3 p.m., with the pastor, the Rev. C. L. Minsterman, officiating. Burial will be in $e MRE cemetery, Berne.

Floods Follow Tornadoes In Three Slates Wreak Destruction In Parts Os Three Southwest States By UNITED PRESS Floods followed a flurry of deadly tornadoes in the southwest storm belt today, wreaking a new round of destruction through parts of Texas, Kansas and Oklahoma. A United Press count showed at least 26 persons killed in violent weather during the past two days. I Twenty of the victims were found lin the tornado-smashed debris of Silverton, Tex. Nine of the 80 persons injured in the Silverton twister Wednesday night remained in critical condition. Twenty-five homes wese destroyed and 30 others were damaged. Floodwaters in the wake of fiveto seven-inch rains rolled through Kansas and Oklahoma, killing a 14 - year -old boy who drowned Thursday night while swimming in a flood-swollen creek in southeast Wichita. Emporia and Wichita, Kan., were the largest cities menaced by floods. Weathermen warned the Neosho River will crest at two to four feet above flood stage at Emporia today. At Wichita, Air Force personnel and Kansas National Guardsmen labored throughout the night sandbagging the dikes along the Little Arkansas River. Five persons died and more than 500 persons were driven from their homes in Oklahoma where the Cimmaron River roared on its worst rampage in history. Enid and Dover, Okla., looked like “(me big lake” from the air Thursday, with floodwaters ranging up to 8 and 10 feet deep. The floods hit on the heels of a 1314inch rainfall. Funnel clouds accompanied the thunderstorms in Kansas and Oklahoma today and spread into parts of the Mississippi Valley. A twister ripped Dudenville, Mo., causing some property damage but no' casualties. While thunderstorms whipped Plains, Cheyenne, Wyo., dug out from a snowstorm that left seven inches of snow on the ground early today. Two inches of snow blanketed Laramie, Wyo., and one inch was reported at Denver. Up to 14 inches of snow buried sections of southeast Wyoming.

Mugging Machine Is Installed At Jail Take Pictures Os All Persons Booked A new “mugging machine” is now under construction at the county jail, sheriff Merle Affolder said today. A “mugging machine” is used to take standardized pictures of all persons booked at the jail. The Adams county department has taken pictures of each person arrested for more than 10 years. Before the new machine was started, a lengthy process of setting up a tripod, mounting the camera, focusing it, had to be set up for each shot. This was often difficult with a stubborn offender. The new mugger will be a builtin apparatus, pre-focused, so that the prisoner can be marched in, lined up, and photographed without trouble. Deputy Bob Meyer worked with Affolder on the design of the machine, and the two installed it Wednesday evening in the second floor hallway of the jail. A cross-index, completely up to date, of all pictures, finger-prints, And records of local offenders, is also being compiled by Affolder, Meyer, and deputy Charles Arnold. A dark room in the basement of the jail, operated by the sheriff and his deputies, is used weekly to develop pictures taken by the sheriff’s department.

Showers And Cool Weather Continue Showers Forecast Tonight, Saturday By UNITED PRESS Showers and cool temperatures kept a firm grip on Hoosiers today and there was no sign of a letup. Showers and thunderstorms were forecast for today, tonight and Saturday morning. They may return to the extreme south portion Sunday. General rain was due ■ again about Tuesday or Wednesday. The cool temperatures which featured the weather In Indiana the last two days was due to continue. The five-day outlook for Saturday through next Wednesday called for temperatures averaging | 9 to 12 degrees below normal in the extreme north to 2 to 5 degrees below normal in the south. Normal highs are 69 to 79 and normal lows 49 to 60. “Cool with warming trend Monday or Tuesday," the outlook said. “Precipitation will average onehalf to one inch as showers in the east portion Saturday and more generally about Tuesday or Wednesday." Temperatures ranged from 57 at Indianapolis to 71 at Evansville Thursday at their high points and dropped into the 40s over the northern half of the state early this morning—as low as 45 at South Bend and Fort Wayne. ’ 1 Highs today will range from the 50s to the mid-60s. Lows tonight will range from 48 to near 60. • Highs Saturday will range from ‘ the upper 50s to the upper 60s. ‘ Rain during the 24 hours ending I this morning included .80 of an inch at Covington, .58 at Craw1 fordsville, .40 at Monticello, .36 at Lafayette, .16 at Terre Haute and ' barely measurable quantities at 1 Indianapolis, South Bend, Fort Wayne, Evansville and Vincennes. Confesses Slaying And Burying Mother Remains Are Found Under Farmhouse CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind. (UP) —State police today planned fingerprint tests to identify a mother whose son admitted he murdered her and buried her dismembered remains in an abandoned farmhouse. Authorities Thursday arrested Clifford Watson, 41, Cincinnati, on a tip from a neighbor who saw his picture in a detective magazine. Watson, a former Evansville, Ind., filling station operator, admiitted he shot .and killed his mother in 1954 and told authorities where her body could be found. Deputies, on Information from Cincinnati police, dug beneath the floor of an old farmhouse near hsre and uncovered the remains of a woman believed to be Mrs Pearl Hartlage, 56. Evansville. Police said Watson readily admitted the slaying, but said it occurred accidentally during a scuffle with his mother at a gasoline station they operated. State police technicians said they believed they could obtain a fingerprint from the victim as a means of identifying her. Watson was captured after a Cincinnati neighbor noted an article in the current “Inside Detective" magazine entitled, “What Happened to Pearl Hartlage?” A picture of the missing woman and her son accompanied the article. The man told police his neighbor matched the picture of Mrs. Hartlage’s son. When authorities arrived, they found Watson packing to leave town. He also had seen the detective magazine article. He said he hacked up his mother’s body and buried it behind the gasoline station. When Evansville police began questioning him about his mother’s disappearance, Watson dug up her body and left for Crawfordsville with his wife and children. There they rented an old house and Watson dug up the flooring and reburied his mother’s re- , mains. He later learned county (OOOUMH M ngM,

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Prods Congress To Enact His Record Budget Must Hot Weaken Military Just To Reduce Tax Burden WASHINGTON (UP)—President Eisenhower said today “we must not weaken ourselves militarily or destroy our leadership in the free world...in our desire to reduce our own tax burden." “To make such an attempt," he said in a telephoned message to a Republican regional conference at Cincinnati, Ohio, “could prove the most costly mistake of our entire national life.” The President again defended his record $71,800,000,000 peacetime spending budget and prodded Congress to enact his proposals on federal aid to schools, civil rights and higher postal rates. “Peace will be maintained only by unrelenting day-by-day sacrifice,” he said. “Any sound political program for America must have this determination as its foundation stone... “To date, this program has made little progress in Congress. Unless that body begins to act on it soon, the country and our people will be the poorer.” The President spoke as key sen- ’ ators vowed to defend his $36,200,000,060 defense budget against a possible House slash of $2,500,000,- , 000. The Senators, who did not wish to be identified by name, foresaw the possibility of trimming the House cut to around one billion dollars. Eisenhower’s. message was addressed to Republican leaders from Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Missouri and West Virginia who gathered at Cincinnat for the ffth GOP regional conference sponsored by the Republican National Committee. Eisenhower called on midwestern Republicans to push for a GOP majority in both houses of Congress next year. ‘‘Since 1954,” he said, "our party has not had the majority in Congress. Such a majority we must win, for it is clear that political responsibility can be definitely fixed only when one party controls both the legislative and executive branches of our government. “Then the praise—or the blame —can be fixed and properly adjudged by the people." The key senators supporting the President said there is no chance that the Senate would go along with the fufi $2,50,000,000 House cut or accept any reduction for aircraft or missile production. The House Appropriations Committee had been reported ready to propose the big cut next week including reductions in the missiles and aircraft programs. However, some informed sources have said much of the cut involved only bookkeeping reductions that would not affect buying military equipment. That left the possibility of a new fight over defense funds open while a series of other budget battles roared on: —Congress sent to the White House the first regular appropriation bill of the session carrying $3,884,927,000 to operate the Post Office and Treasury departments and the U.S. Tax Court. The bill was cut $80,364,000-658,000,000 of it from postal requests. The postal cut virtually assured new reductions in postal services in July. —The Senate called up for action a slashed $613,584,290 approContinued on Par* Release Rep. Beamer From Hospital Today WASHINGTON — (W Rep. John V. Beamer (R-Ind.) was to be released from a hospital at, Elkin, N. C., today, his office here said. Beamer suffered a heart attack at Elkin Good Friday and has been hospitalized since. His office staff said Beamer would continue his recuperation at his son’s home in Elkin “for a couple of weeks.” He then will take a rest of at least another month to complete his recovery.