Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 156, Decatur, Adams County, 3 July 1957 — Page 8

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, )1 .„ ‘ ***•'" ■ Inventory Spending Decline Is Offset Review Is Given By Federal Bank CHICAGO (UP) -The Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago said today a decline in inventory spending has been more than offset by a boost in government spending to keep the nation's economy on an even keel. . The bank, in its monthly review, said the volume of buying in the nation has increased steadily since 1958 due to combined consumer, government and business spending National inventories from the fourth quarter of 1956 through early 1957, the bank said, dropped from a plus four billion dollars to a minus one billion, creating a situation similar to the start of the 1953-54 recession. there is no recession now, the bank said, because government spending has been on the upswing, consumer income has continued to gain and corporate profits have held their torn, „ Bank analysts said the economy still is under pressure from inflationary tendencies and unemployment continues relatively low. the bank said some firms, particularly automobile and television manufacturers, increased their inventories toward the end of 1956 in anticipation of a “boom.” When it failed began to liquidate their uircntories. State Traffic Toll Is Over 500 Mark INDIANAPOLIS (UP>,_— Indiana's traffic death toll for 1957 passed the 500 mark last week but remained about 6 per cent below the total for th-? corresponding period in 1956. SUte Police provisional figures showed 22 new deaths recorded last week, same as the corresponding week last •year. They raised the year’s total to 503 compared with 532 last year. FAIR, WARM <C—Statoae <>—» P»K* One) South Bend during the night. Highs today will range from 85 to near 90 and lows tonight from Jt to 70. Meanwhile, flood crests of the Wabash and White Rivers moved slowly southwestward. // fl' \\ | I I * fl. 11955 * f PONTIAC I Star Chief 4-door 1 Radio and Heater ■ Automatic Trans. I 11954 I PONTIAC = 2-doot* Radio and Heater I Automatic Trans, e 1953 PONTIAC I Catalina I Radio and Heater I Il Automatic Trans, d [M SEVERAL OTHER CARS Good Transportation. DECATUR SUPER SERVICE 224 W. Monroe Street ■>> _________

85-Year-Old Man Is Killed By Car LINTON (UP) — Michael Neff. 85. Worthington, died in FreemanGreene County Hospital here Tuesday of injuries apparently sustained when hit by a car as he crossed a Bloomfield street Thursday. An inquest will be held to determine the cause of death of the retired farmer. • 1 Foreign Car Sales Are Booming Here Sharp Increase In Foreign Car Sales NEW YORK (UP) —Sales of foreign cars in the United States are booming. Americans this year will spend in the neighborhood of half a billion dollars for small, lightweight cars from Germany, France. England. Italy and Sweden. The sharp increase in foreign car sales—from around 30,000 cars in 1954 to around 200,000. this year —has caused some raised eyebrows in Detroit. Every American car manufacturer is mapping plans to take advantage of the new market opened up by their foreign counterparts. Foreign Car Sales Up Foreign cars are expected to account for about 3 to 3.5 per cent of the total U.S. ear metket this year. Foreign manufacturers report sales are running well ahead of 1956 and that they have long waiting listsThe big selling feature of these cars is economy—low prices, efficient operation. Germany’s little Messerschmitt, which carries two people, one behind the other, is said to run 100 miles on a gallon of gasoline. U.S. Imports Rise Imports of foreign cars have increased so rapidly the past few years that some experts are predicting 1957 will be the first year in history that the U.S. imported more cars than it exported. U.S. firms are taking steps, to capture a share of this fast-grow-ing and lucrative market. General Motors Corp- announced last week that it will begin importing cars made by two of its foreign affiliates — VauxhaU in England and Opel in Germany. Ford is pushing imports of two of its affiliates—Ford of England and Simca of France. StudebakerPackard is going to produce an economy car in this country and also has an arrangement with Daimler-Benz of Germany. American Motors Corp makes the small Rambler and *if importing the British-made Metropolitan. Why Small Cars Sell What’s behind the rise in small, cars ales? i “Our big markets are the people who want a second car or those who must drive back and work every day,” said Robert Lamaison, vice president and general manager of Renault Inc., major French auto maker. "Our biggest selling feature is economy. Why buy a car that gives only 15 miles to the gallon I when you can buy one that will give you 40?" he asked. Lamaison said' the move to the suburbs and the rising cost of gasoline have helped to spur the growth of the economy-car market. FLOOD WATERS Denver its highest reading of the year Tuesday at 96 degrees. W mercury bubbled to 103 at La Junta. Colo., and readings were in the 90’s in most of Wyoming and New Mexico. _____ Trade in a fond town — Decatur i - Last Time Tonight - j "BIRDS A THE BEES” Technicolor Comedy With i George Gobel, Mitzi Mayfair | THURSDAY ONLY Fourth of July Gigantic Fireworks Display — Plus Screen Hit — “YOUNG GUNS” Bus Tamblyn, Gloria Talbot A "KABTUNE KABNIVAL” Fri. A Sat.—“ Backlash” & "This Island Earth” : —- - Sun. Mon. Tues.—“ The Kettles on OM MacDonald’s. Facet” A “Outside the Law”

TOWNSHIP LINE «?on«inn»a ftwm Paca On*) introduced by the defendant, he continued, to show that any land, other than that included in the change of 1887, had been changed from Wabash to Monroe township legally. He then reviewed all the evidence that had been introduced to show the location of the line by commissioner’s records, Hie moving of the boundary must stop, he emphasized, and corrective action must be taken to return the land now lying outside the change of 1887 but south of joaj 118 to Wabash townsfcip tax lists for the next year. “ " Attorney Smith then explained the law on cases of this sort, giving many citations. Attorney David Macklin, for defendant Jaberg, then summed up his case, asking only that his defendant be ordered to do the correct thing. ‘ Muselman. attorney for Sprunger, then took the floor. He stated that he had refused to answer a question yesterday, from a Decatur Daily Democrat reporter, concerning why he did not advise the plaintiff of his findings in the matter of the ruling of 1887, but that be would now explain to the court. “The homes and firesides of 650 people are threatened,” he said, and I felt compelled to give all diligence and all skill to this matter.” This he did, he continued, pursuant to the oath he took many years ago from clerk John E. Nelson. Tbe defendant. Sylvan Sprunger, he stated, did not wish to Interfere with official duty, but he felt there were two questions before the AlM—— l —

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court, has the plaintiff proved the allegation, and have the officers of Adams county acted contrary to law. "They have not," Muselman continued. "Are they lawbreakers? No. The auditors serving since 1887, John Tyndall, and many others, including Thurman Drew, Frank Kitson, and the present'Edward Jaberg, have acted within the letter and spirit of the commissioner’s decision of 1887.” Much has been said here about laches, he continued. He then read a case which stated that it was within the province of a judga to determine laches in a given case.. Public officials are presumed ’td be right until proven otherwise, he added. In equity, judgment can be granted only to the diligent, and he quoted several cases. The plaintiff has acquiesced through negligence for a period of 10-20-30-40-50-60— yes, 70 years, Muselman stressed. A lost opportunity can never be, restored, in equity, he concluded. “As far as the future is concerned, I have nothing to say, but we do want the auditor to perform his duty.” Muselman closed. McClenahan then began his summary. The plaintiff had in mind when the trial started that Wabash* township was a congressional township, 6 miles square. Since the introduction of the evidence concerning the change of 1887, he has admitted it to be true. 'I don’t believe he has a case,” he said. McClenahan then said that he would show to the court that all Berne was within Monroe township. He quoted from several laws, including one that stated that any appeal of the 1887 ruling of the -L. . . _ P..

commissioners should have been made within a month of that date. He then read that laches meant an (inexcusable delay, the opposite of diligence. He asked the court to find that laches applied in this case. Also, he' read a decision whieh he held proved that the area south of 118 without the boundaries of 1887 should be considered part of Monroe township because it was contiguous to the rest of the township. Smith then answered McClenahan, stating that his last cited case referred only to cities, not townships, and that none was contending that the area was not part of Berne. Smith then quoted many Indiana decisions showing that laches must be pleaded, that mandamus suits were suits of law, that laches cannot apply to acts of public servants against public servants, that a third person must enter the matter, and that an affirmative action must be taken by the plaintiff for laches to be in effect. He quoted a 1947 Indiana case which held that laches could not apply to a public servant doing indirectly what he could not do directly. Smith recalled that while in law school he had been instructed in law that in the matter of substance and procedure, the procedure of the local law controls the action, rather than federal law. The state of Indiana law would rule in procedure here, he held, and laches could not apply unless pleaded. “If laches apply, from what, date does it run?” Smith asked. Each action on the change of boundary is a separate act by the auditor, and therefore laches would apply

only from the last act, March 1, 1957. The case was then closed, and Judge Parrish promised a full consideration of the matter. CLEAN ELECTION (C—from Fuse fl<«) exchange should , help understanding between the two nations. This in turn would boost the value of major conferences such as the current London disarmament negotiations, he said Disarmament: Chairman Hubert H. Humphrey of the Senate special disarmament subcommittee hailed 914 U. S. dOkrmament plan calling for a suspension of nuclear tests as a “serious, well considered proposal." The Minnesota Democrat said the plan is just a beginning but "the important thing is to get the first step.” Other officials said the United States is working on another possible disarmament move to bar transfer of nuclear weapons to Red China or other non-nuclear powers. Agreements: Rep. Frank T. Bow disputed Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson’s claim that American troops wpuld have to be called home from overseas if the United States scraps its status-of-forces agreements. The Ohio Republican said nations with American soldiers on their soil are interested enough in their own protection and in free world strength to want to keep Gl’s there. The House Foreign Affairs Committee has approved a resolution demanding that status-of-forces accords dealing with trials of US. servicemen be scrapped or renegotiated.' Court: Members of a special House subcommittee agreed that ~ — — - -»-*

, further legislation will be needed to offset effects of recent Supreme I Court decisions. Rep. William C. . Cramer (Fla.), b senior GOP member of the new subcommittee, said he will press for immediate hearings to determine whether new laws should be enacted before Congress adjourns this year. ; Mrs. Chas. Ploughe Dies At Fort Wayne Mrs. Charles W. Ploughe, 68, of Fort Wayae, died at 1:05 p. m. Tuesday at the Lutheran hospit- • al. Surviving are the husband: , one sonj Wayne Styremaq ’ Indianapolis; a brother, Elza • Logan of Bargersville, and four step-children. Milroy Ploughe of Fort Wayne, Dale Ploughe of Decatur, Mrs. Lois Buskirk of ■ Nine Mile, arj Mrs. Doris

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Thompson of Littleton, Colo. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a. m. Friday at the Klaehn funeral home, Dr. J. Frank Lansing officiating. Burial will be at Nine Mile. Friends may call pt the funeral home after 7 p. m today. Trucker Is Killed By Freight Train ELKHART (UP) r- Charles P. Bohn, 36, Oak Lawn, 111., died in Elkhart General Hospital Tuesday night from injuries sustained when his_big .{puck was hit by a freight tram at d erasing nere. The New York Central train was pulling slowly into rail yards but it demolished the tractor of the semi-trailer outfit. Bohn was the father of five children.