Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 156, Decatur, Adams County, 3 July 1957 — Page 1

Vol. LV. No. 156

J in. HI 'l'. 1 REPORTS ON AUDREY Ely REPORTING TO PRESIDENT EISENHOWER on conditions as he f<Hjnd them in the disaster area of retiring civil defence administrator Vai Peterson (right) tells of the devastation and death found. He told Mr. Eisenhower of the 300 deaths in the wake of Hurricane Audrey and said he felt ever> home should have some sort ot electrically-operated device to warn of impending disasters.

Clean Election Bill Okayed By Senate Group i Would Rewrite Laws Governing Political Campaign Expenses By UNITED PRESS The Senate Rules Committee approved today a “clean elections” bill which would rewrite laws governing political campaign contributions and expenditures. The bill would make the comptroller general responsible ‘ for screening campaign financial reports and reporting law violations. Other congressional news: Hells Canyon: Opponents of a bill to authorize a government dam in Hells Canyon said they will fofee a final vote on the measure in the fUB House Interior Committee next Wednesday The Committee’s irrigation and reclamation subcommittee all but killed the bill TuesdSy when it voted. 15-12, to strike out its enacting clause. Defense: The Senate has passed the biggest appropriations bill of the current congressional sessionone putting up $34,534,229,000 for the armed services. The measure, passed unanimously at an overtime meeting Tuesday night, gave President Eisenhower a resounding budget victory. It would restore $971,504,000 of the $1,200,000,000 in House cuts which the President had labeled a threat to national security. Passage came after the Senate staved off two drives to make deeper cuts in the measure. But senators did include a provision demanding that Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson take all possible steps to save money by eliminating waste and duplication in military procurement and plyThe House and Senate versions now gp to a conference to thresh out differences in the two totals. Senators agreed in advance that their total would be tended somewhat in reaching a compromise with the House Other congressional news: « Filibuster: The Senate cleared its legislative schedule for what looks like one of the biggest civil rights fights of the century. Republicans and liberal Democrats expressed optimism that they would be successful, in their battle this time. The Senate plans to recess tonight over the Fourth of July holiday and then tackle the civil rights problem Monday. Exchange: Sen. Russell B. Long (D-La.) proposed that Russian leaders be invited to address Congress in return for similar talks by American leaders to Russia’s lawmaking body. He said such an ,Continual on Page Eight) Suspend Business Here Generally On July 4th Holiday Most business will come. to a standstill in Decatur Thursday as the city joins in celebration of Independence Day. City, county and federal offices will be closed all day, The First State Bank will close, the public library will close, the post office will make no deliveries, except special delivery. The Daily Democrat will not publish an edition. Most retail stores will be closed, with a few exceptions, such as confectioneries, tavernS and service stations. A quiet holiday appears in store. Only attractions will be Klenk’s Federation league game at 2 p.m. Thursday at Worthman field, and the fireworks display Thursday night at the Drive-in theater.

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Township Line Case Is Completed Today . Judge Takes Case Under Advisement Arguments for the defendants were completed Tuesday afternoon, and rebuttal and final pleadings were finished by noon today in the Wabash-Monroe township line case, which was taken under advisement by Judge Myles F. Parrish until he can complete his . study of the case. Judge Parrish stated that he would do his best to rule on the case before budget time, but that he wobld not be hurried into making a decision that might not be right, just and equitable. Judge Parrish told the counsel for the plaintiff that he would give him a week or two to present his questions for the special findings. I The plaintiff has the right to. submit each question for a decision from the judge under this pleading. Special findings are usually asked when there is a possibility of appealing the case. The defendant. Sylvan Sprunger, finished his chse yesterday afternoon. With Edward F. Jaberg. county auditor, on the stand, attorney C. H. Muselman, for Sprunger, asked his co-defendant to read from defendant’s exhibit E, the commissioner’s record for June 9, 1887. Jaberg then read that an area about one-half mile deep and three-fourths miles wide, from section four of Wabash township, was taken into Monroe township on that date by the county commissioners. Jaberg had previously been asked to identify the Berne transfer book concerning transferring of the property of Herman and Ester Bauman, James DeArmond, and Amos Stauffer into Berne and Monroe township. He stated that he knew of no law or commissioner’s action authorizing him io do so, but had done it because it had been established by custom in the auditor’s office that when a piece of property was taken into Berne it was taken into Monroe township. In rebuttal, attorneys Custer and Smith attempted to use other pages in the transfer book to crossexamine witness Jaberg, but the court ruled against them. Custer then entered into the record that he offered to prove, or would have asked Jaberg to testify, concerning other land recently brought into Monroe township which lies,, out’side the 1887 grant. Attorney McClenahan objected to this, and was sustained by the court. Custer and Smith then asked for a continuance to search the records further, and determine if this was a final action by the commissioners. This was argued, McClenahan and Muselman objecting strenuously, and Macklin not objecting. MeClenahan stated that if a surprise were sprung, It was a surprise of 70 years standing. The motion for a continuance was overruled, but during a recess called at that time, the attorneys agreed to recess until this morning to allow the attorneys for the plaintiff to go through the records. This morning at 9:30 the case continued, and the defense rested its case. In the summary, Custer started, stating that his client only hoped to establish the true boundary, and to find the real facts. He stated that had attorney Muselman told them of his findings, they could have agreed on them before the case started, and saved much time. He reported in a search of the record last night from 1887 until 1919, when the law regarding changing boundaries was altered, no additional changes were found, . and .that his client was satisfied that the commissioner's order of 1887 still stands. Not one iotg of proof had been (Continues aa Pace ®»a*<)

Continue Hunt For Bodies Os Storm Victims Nearly 300 Bodies Already Found In Wake Os Hurricane LAKE CHARLES, La. (UP)— Officials today worked on a list of persons missing in hurricane Audrey to compare with the nearly 300 bodies already found. Search parties were expected to find more mute testimony to the viciousness of the hurricane and its tidal wave which swept through southwestern Louisiana nearly a week ago. In addition to bodies, searchers were finding thousands of dollars in cash strewn over the countryside when the great wave smashed homes and businesses. Many residents of the area refused to place their money in banks. At last report. Sheriff Henry Reid of Calcasieu Parish (Lake Charles) said 293 bodies have been found ’*■' gov. Earl Long said Tuesday there was a total of 500 dead and missing- Asked for an estimate of property damage in the devastated Cameron area, he said “You’ll have to get those figures from the Lord.” Reid said he expects to have a/ list of the missing complete today. He will check it against the identified dead and the more than 100 unidentified bodies buried in common graves for a clearer idea of the eventual total. In a jumbled mass of wreckage on Cameron’s main street officials fear more bodies will be found. A huge barge, 60 feet wide and 200 feet long, rests across the street. Five crushed automobiles are visible under its stern. No attempt has been made yet to see what else may be crumpled beneath the barge blown ashore from the gulf. Drowning Victim's 7 Body Found Today Russell Price Body Found This Morning The body of Russell Price, 47, of Willshire, Ohio, and a Decatur Casting Co. employe, was found at 10 a. m. today, nearly a mile and a half northwest of where his boat capsized Sunday afternoon, drowning him and a companion, Melvin Nussbaum, of Berne. The tragedy occurred at 4:13 p. m. Sunday, as the two men were riding on the rough waters of Lake St. Mary’s, at St. Mary’s, Ohio. Lake patrolmen L. H. Brentlinger and Cliff W. Wolfal, St Mary's police officer working on his day off, discovered the body this morning while searching far from where the body was suspected to be. M. O. Durbin, park manager, stated that before today, crewmen had not attempted ♦n drag that particular area. From past experience in similar drownings, workers were fearful that the body would not be discovered until Friday, five days after the drownings. Robert Davison, Auglaize county sheriff, who viewed the body after it was taken to the state parks service building in the channel, reported that there were no cuts or bruises on the body, and Price’s watch had at 5:30. The watch found on Nussbaum's body, which was found three hours after the accident, was stopped at 4:13 p. m., shprtly after the two men had set out in the extremely rough waters. Authorities said that the spot where Price’s body was found was just mile within a speedboat lane, straight south of the west end on Sandy beach, on the north shore of the lake. After the overturned inboard motor boat and Nussbaum’s body -were discovered Sunday, dragiging operations continued for several hours, and were resumed at dawn the next day. A life preserver was on Nussbaum’s body when found, and the preserver believed to have been wdrn by Price, was discovered floating in the water late Monday afternoon. An investigation of the boat, which was owned by Price and (Coatiaaed Pace Five) City Pool Will Open Thursday Afternoon Hubert Zerkel, Jr., supervisor of the municipal swimming pool, announced today that the city pool will be operated Thursday, July 4, on the regular holiday and Sunday schedule, and will be open only between 2 and 5 p.m. \

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Eisenhower Opposed To National Referendum On Civil Rights Plan

Pravda Hints Major Shakeup In Leadership Indicates Trouble By Russians Among Party Leadership LONDON (UP) — The Soviet Communist Party newspaper Pravda hinted today that a major shakeup may have taken place in the Kremlin leadership. The indication of trouble in Moscow "Came in a Pravda editorial which made a for “unshakeable unity” among Soviet leaders. It particularly referred to past errors attributed to former Premier Georgi Malenkov and former Foreign Minister V.M. Molotov, but it mentioned no names. Malenkov succeeded the late Josef Stalin as premier. Both he and Molotov have been advocates of continuing the Stalin policies denounced by the Kremlin group led by Communist Party boss Nikita Khrushchev and present Premier Nikolai Bulganin. This week Bulganin and Khrushchev suddenly postponed a trip to Prague, Czechoslovakia, scheduled to start last Monday It now Pravda Mitorial underwent unusual delays at the hands of Soviet censors. The Moscow censor broke the connection when United Press in London attempted to call the U.P. bureau in the Soviet capital. “There are not and there cannot be individuals in the party who by virtue of their high posts would be protected from criticism of their mistakes and insufficiencies,” Pravda said. “The Central Committee boldly discusses and criticizes any leaders of the party and government regardless of who they are if they commit errors in their work. “And the Central Committee takes decisive measures against any individuals if their actions and deeds contradict the party’s line.” Western experts immediately interpreted the blast as a sign of acute differences in the Kremlin leadership and said it appeared a change is underway. Central Soya Co., Union Sign Pact New Wage Contract Is Signed Tuesday Central Soya local 261 Tuesday ratified an agreement between employes and the Central Soya Company for a new three-year contract effective as of July 1. The contract provides for wage increases of 10 cents an hour for all bargaining unit employes, effective July 1, and an additional 8 cents an hour, effective July 1, 1958. The contract also provides for renegotiation of wages July 1, 1959. Other changes include an improved pension plan, and vacation plan. The parties agreed to an additional paid vacation each year, making a total of seven. Negotiations started in April, and were completed last Friday. The contract ran out J'uly 1. Both company and union officials expressed satisfaction with the agreement reached. The contract establishes a firm basis for continued good relations between the company, union, and employes, spokesmen stated. Representing the union during the negotiations were John A. Dippie, international representative, Wayne Peterson, president of the local union, Albert Tinkbam, recording secretary, Bob Maines, Doyle Painter, James Shackley, Clifford Hirschy, Charles Heimann, Calvin Sprunger, Dwight . Whitacre, Grover Levy, and Clarence Lengerich. The company was represented by Jack E. Chappell, personnel director, Tom Allwein, plant manager, Howard Watters and Art Burris.

Sewage Plant Bids Under Advisement Recommendation Os Engineers Studied Members of the city council, which met at city hall Tuesday wrted to4»ke under adyjSement recommendations received from Consoer, Townsend Associates, consulting engineers , concerning the proposed instruction of interceptor sewers and sewage treatment plant, garbage disposal facilities and lift station. In a letter received by the Mayor last Week, John Ward, Jr., chief engineer of Consoer, Townsend & Associates, recommended that the contracts for the project be tentatively awarded, subject to financing and state agency and public health service approvals. Yost Construction Co., of this city, was tow bidder on both projects, bidding $974,292.20. This amount is well under the engineer's estimate of $1,200,000 and do not fake into consideration the $250,000 grant of the federal government for assistance in construction. Further action in the matter will be withheld until members of the council an opportunity to confer With the engi-' neer. Several recommendations were Received by the Chicago engineering firm concerning equipment selection. It stated that if major equipment is selected as recommended, the estimated amount for contract three, which is the sewage treatment plant, garbage disposal facilities, and lift station, will be $739,055. The original amount bid by Yost's for this phase of the project, was $746,050. At the opening of bids held in conjunction with the June 18 council meeting, Yost Construction was the only concern submitting bids on the combined proposal, with three other firms bidding only on the treatment plant, garbage disposal and lift units, and two others placing bids on the interceptor sewers only. Official action should come within the next few days. Approve Rejection Os Zoning Revision Council Approves Commission Action In a brief regularly scheduled session, the city council Tuesday night approved a previous action of the Decatur plan commission in rejecting the petition of MiesDawson Realty Corp, for a change in the zoning ordinance to make 31 acres of land in northwest Decatur a C-2 area instead of R-l. The action, which was unanimous, followed a report filed by the plan commission, stating that the board recommended rejection of the petition by a 5-1 vote. A letter of consent for the city to build a transmission line across Pennsylvania railroad backs, in it? project to obtain electric power from the IndianaMichigan Electric Co., was filed in the records. The council also unanimously approved by ordinance the contract for construction of the transmission lines from IndianaMichigan west of Decatur into the city. The contract was originally entered into between the board of works and the L. E. Myers Co. of Delaware for the bringing in of the lines and last night’s ordinance was a confirmation of the action. The covenant between theboard of works and Central Soya Co. also was made a matter of record. The Soya Co. gave - the city 10 acres of land north of Decatur for construction of a sewage treatment plant and the city agreed in the covenant to landscape and maintain the property. The land can never be used for any other purpose. A state highway commission (Contiased «b Pagv Fi»a)

Flood Wafers Are Raging In Three States ■* Hundreds Forced To Flee Home, Holiday Travelers Blocked By (ORD PRESS floodwaters raged across sections of southern Nebraska, Kansas and the St. Louis, Mo., area today, forcing hundreds of persons to flee and blocking roads to Fourth of July holiday travelers. Tornado funnels swarmed across southern Nebraska Tuesday night, smashing several farm buildings near Curtis. Other twisters were sighted near Grand Island; Neb. The storms tore down communications and in undated roads in the Curtis area. No reports on damage or possible casualties were .immediately available. ? The rain swollen Meramec River, which forced some 300 persons from their homes on the southwest edge of St. Louis, began receding slowly today after cresting at 32 feet, about 16 feet above flood stage. The flood, the fourth this year in the area, inundated about 100 homes in suburban Valley Park. It also blocked three major highways In the St, Louis .region. Including heavily traveled U.S. W. The Meramec is expected to drop to 31.3 feet today and to 27.5 feet Thursday. Heavy rains in southern Nebraska touched off flash floods Tuesday night, and new flooding hit Tescott, Kan , as the Saline River overflowed its banks and swirled to a depth of three feet in some homes. About 200 persons were forced to evacuate at Tescott. Damage was reported as extensive. A severe thunderstorm accompanied by hail pounded Rapid City, S.D., Tuesday night. Other storms struck- the lower Mississippi Valley. The Jackson, Miss., area was hit by winds up to 60 miles an hour which uprooted trees and bowled over tents at the town of Collins, Miss. Atlanta, Ga., and Dothan, Ala., were hit by more than an inch of rain in a six-hour period Scattered showers and thunderstorms also were reported in the northern Great Lakes and the Pacific Northwest. A 1 heat wave across Colorado, Wyoming and New Mexico, gave C'entlaae* m, race Kick* Mrs. Clara Clouse Dies Tuesday Night Funeral Services Friday Afternoon Mrs. Clara A. Clouse, 84, who resided one mile east of Willshire, 0., died at 11:30 p. m. Tuesday at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Arnold : Alspaugh, Willshire township. She had been in failing health for the past year. She was born in Whitley county May 3, 1873, a daughter of Andrew J. and Sarah Bair-An-spaugh, and moved to Willshire township in 1904. She was married Oct. 22, 1896, to G. M. Clouse, who preceded her in death May 28, 1950. Mrs. Clouse was ,a member of the Willshire Methodist church. Surviving in addition to the daughter are three sons, Edgar Clouse of Rockford, 0., Darrel Clouse of Decatur route 6, and Dale Clouse of Willshire; 16 grandchildren; 20 great-grand-children; one brother, Herman Anspaugh of Fort Myers, Fla., and one sister, Mrs. W. A. Dull of Willshire. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p. m. Friday at the Zwick funeral home, the Rev. Howard Dunlap officiating. Burial will be in the Willshire cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o’clock this evening until time of the" services. •*.- .. • • - '

Low-Cost Asiatic Flu Vaccine Made Vaccine Developed By Five Drug'Firms INDIANAPOLIS (UP)—PitmanMoore Co. and EJi Lilly, Indianapolis pharmaceutical firms, were named today with four other drug companies as developers of a lowcost Asiatic influenza vaccine. Others taking part in the development, conducted under the direction of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md., are Parke Davis, Merck, .Vick Chemical's National Drug Division and the Lederle Drug Division of the American Cyanamid Co. Hibbard Ball, executive vice president of Pitman-Moore, said his firm has received a contract for approximately one-half million cubic centimeters of the new Far East flu vaccine from the U.Sgovernment. One “cc” is considered one adult dose. Ball \said the vaccine will be used to immunize members, of the armed forces against a new strain' of influenza which has swept the Far East with some cases reported in the U.S. Although the virus is considered less potent than the flu germ of 1918-19, which killed 20 million persons, it has caused 1,617 deaths in only a month in Manila. Ball said his company will go into immediate production since it is in a position frqm the standpoint of facilities, plans, and personnel. A plot lot of the new vaccine recently was sent to Washington for testing. Ball said once the vaccine is put into production it will take 35 days to complete the lot. Samples will then be sent to Washington for testing. . , / The vaccine is produced by injecting the influenza virus into eggs containing chick embryos. The eggs are permitted to incubate and the fluid which develops is removed to make the vaccineLederle announced that the cost of the flu vaccine will be $1.20 to $1.50 a shot. Fair, Warm Holiday Weather Predicted ■ Green Light Given Hossiers On Holiday By UNITED PRESS The weatherman gave Hoosiers a big green light today for Fourth of July celebrations. The skies will be clear and temperatures warm from Lake Michigan to the Ohio River. "Fair and warm today, tonight and Thursday” was the forecast. Highs of 92 were expected all around the state to give Indiana one of the season’s warmest days and temperatures conducive to water sports and other outdoor activities indulged in on holidays. The five-day outlook indicated a cooler trend for the north portion of the state during the weekend but pot until after the Fourth is past. Scattered showers and thunderstorms averaging about onehalf inch precipitation will fall, but not until the day after the holiday. Temperatures will average near normal highs of 83 to 90 and normal lows of 62 to 69. “A little warmer Thursday, turning cooler northern sections about Saturday or Sunday," the outlook for the period Thursday through next Monday said- “Precipitation will average near half inch in scattered showers and thunderstorms about Friday or Saturday." Temperatures hit highs ranging from 84 at Indianapolis and Fort Wayne to 87 at Evansville Tuesday and dropped to lows ranging from 63 at Indianapolis to 68 at Coatlauea «■ P««« . INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy and rather humid this afternoon through Thursday, with ehance of a few scattered thunderstorms north portion. Low tonight 64-70. High Thursday around 90. Sunset 8:16 p. m., sunrise Thursday 5:22 a. m.

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Would Invite Foreign Lands Inspect Tests > Opposes National Referendum Over Civil Rights Plan WASHINGTON (UP) —President ; Eisenhower today opposed a na- ' tional referendum on his proposed civil rights program. Eisenhower told a news conference that he does not know of any provision under the Constitution for such a referendum. He also said he presumes that the question submitted to the people would have to be the exact language of the bill. Eisenhower said he did not think that would make a very good subject for a referendum. The idea of putting the administration’s civil rights bill to a national referendum was advanced Tues- ; day by Sen. Richard B- Russell (D-Ga.), leader of the southern ' bloc opposing the bill. Eisenhower noted that the Constitution places responsibilities for enacting legislation into law on federal officials—obviously meaning Congress and the executive branch ot the federal government. More U-235 Available > toother. news conference high—Proposed' inviting all foreign countries, including Russia, to send representatives to the next U.Snuclear test to find out with their own instruments the • size ot nuclear weapons this country is testing and how “glean” .they are. : He . said that we are trying to make small and “clean” (free of radioactive fallout) nuclear weap- , ons. —Said he would make public ’ later today a statement about this , government making available, ' both at home and abroad, cont siderably more U-235 for peaceful . purposes. —Said he does not have the exact detailed knowledge necessary to make a judgment on whether the recent steel price increase of $6 a ton was fully warranted. But he repeated that the government alone cannot maintain a stable economy. He said it must have the aid of statesmanlike action by labor and management leaders on wage - price increases. —Denied that he is any less enthusiastic about disarmament, including suspension of nuclear tests, since he found out that scientists believe they can produce an absolutely clean hydrogen bomb with four or five more years of testing. He said the administration still stands firmly on its offer* cm disarmament and suspension of nuclear tests. Cites Free Press —Said he believes that Army Specialist De Wayne McOsker should be tried by a French court because the crime of which he is accused occurred while the American soldier was off duty. The President said that put McOsker in the same category as any tourist—Favored giving the defense secretary power to put procurement and supply activities of the armed forces under a central official. —Referred a reporter to Tuesday’s comment by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles about the proposal of Sen. John F. Kennedy (D-Mass.) that this nation backs Algeria in its struggle for independence from France. Dulles said that Algeria is primarily a French problem, and that if Kennedy wants to do something about colonialism he should concentrate on the kind behind the Iron Curtain. The President said that the U.S. role of world leadership requires that this nation try to understand both sides in controversies ,sUch as tiie French-Alge-rian dispute instead of lining up with one of them. He said the United States must try to be decent to all and not take sides. -Opposed making it mandatory that any future triecast in this country by Communist leaders be submitted in advance to the secretary of state and head of the Central Intelligence Agency He said that would align us with (C«atlrae4 m P»«» Ftva>