Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 167, Decatur, Adams County, 17 July 1957 — Page 1

Vol. LV. No. 167

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*' 1 --■■» - Ike Discusses VStfobnte Feels Exchange Os Visits By Defense Chiefs Is Useful WASHINGTON (UP)—President Eisenhower said today that an exchange of visits between Soviet Defense Minister Marshal Georgi K. Zhukov and Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson might be useful. The President said at his news conference there is almost nothing he would not favor doing in an attempt to ease world tensions. But he made a specific exception. That exception, he said, is that no conference should be held which might raise world hopes and then dash them to pieces I The President said, however, that he could see no harm in a meeting between Wilson and Zhukov. The President discussed the possibility of such a meeting when a reporter asked whether he thought an exchange of visits between the U.S. and Soviet defense chiefs would serve a "useful purpose," The President also: —Said it would be logical for the United States to build a nuclear weapons stockpile for use by NATO Allies in case of attack. He said the United States has been studying means of arming NATO properly for some time. He refused to discuss the status of any nuclear stockpile plans. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles disclosed Tuesday that the United I States was considering such a proposal. —Said the idea that present Soviet bosses are trying to meet demands of their people seems to be sound. Eisenhower made the statement when asked ot comment on the recent Kremlin shake-up. He said the changes result from pressures within the country. —Said America’s alliances with free world nations would fall apart if the status of forces agreements are drastically altered. Without those agreements, he said, the United States would be compelled to bring its troops home. —Said he is against recessing the London disarment talks with Russia simply because some negotiators may be getting tired. ' He said it may be necessary once in a while to take a break when new ideas come up. But the President wo .... Hultr SMXI Child Killed When Thrown Under Wagon LAGRANGE, Ind. (UP)— Mary W. Whetstone, 3, La Grange, was killed late Tuesday when throwij under the wheels of a wagon pulled by a team of run-away horses. The little girl was riding in the wagon with her father-when the horses suddenly bolted and she was thrown from the vehicle. She died in a physician’s office a short time later.

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Heavy Rainfall In Area Os Monticello Thunderstorms Hit Northern Indiana lake Monticello early today in a new rash of thunderstorms sweeping across Northern Indiana. It was the second time in five days that torrents fell on Monticello, where 2.66 itches of rain were recorded last Friday night. Flash flood conditions were reported. Dams in the Tippecanoe River-Lake Shafer-Lake Freeman were strained by the downpour. A few roads were flooded. The latest rainfall, newest development in one of Hoosierland’s wettest years in history, also dumped 1.93 inches on Kokomo, 1.34 inches on Rochester, nearly an inch on an Indianapolis southeast side area, and about onequarter inch at South Bend and the Indianapolis airport. Southern Indiana points where up to three inches of precipitation were recorded early Tuesday got little or none today. The rain isn’t overThundershowers were due on a scattered basis over the southern two-thirds of the state today, tonight and Thursday, and in the north Thursday. The five-day outlook called for precipitation averaging about an inch north to one-half inch south occurring in scattered showers Thursday and again Saturday. Temperatures ranged Tuesday from highs of 82 at Fort Wayne to 91 at Evansville and dropped into the 60s over most of the state early today, including 62 at South Bend and 66 at Indianapolis. Evansville had a 73. Today’s highs, originally scheduled to range between 90 and 95, were trimmed down to 82. A warming trend is due Friday and Saturday and it will stick around through next Monday at least, with temperatures for the five-day period averaging 2 to 4 degrees above normal highs of 85 to 91 and normal lows of 63 to 72. Services Incomplete For Howard Burdg Funeral arrangements have not beeh completed for Howard C. Burdg, 73/ who suffered a fatal heart attack at, 10 a. m. Tuesday, while driving from Fort Wayne to Decatur. Mr. Burdg, who lived at San Gabriel, Calif., was visiting in Fort Wayne with a sister, and was mi his way here to visit other relatives. The body is presently at Zwick’s funeral home, but no arrangements ’ will be made until Burdg"s son, Floyd, also of San Gabriel, can be located. He and his family are presently vacationing. Burdg’s wife, the former Carle Tester, died of a similar attack while visiting in Decatur last August.

Dulles Urges No Slash In Foreign Aid Secretary Os State H Testifies Before | r Senate Committee By UNITED PRESS L 'Secretary of State John Foster Dulles said today that foreign aid Cuts are "false economies" that - would force higher defense spending and bigger draft calls. i Reductions below the $3,900,000,000 President Eisenhower requested, he said, also would weaken the free world in its efforts to negotiate a disarmament agreement with Russia. I Dulles testified before the Senate Appropriations Committee as the House neared a vote on a foreign aid authorization bill that would slice 700 million dollars off the Eisenhower program. House leaders were sure it would pass without any further* cutsThe Senate already has approved a $3,800,000,000 authorization. I Once the two houses agree on the size of the program, a separate bill appropriating the actual money must be passed by Congress. " ’ I Other congressional news: Rackets: Sen. John F. Kennedy (D-Mass.) said today that the Bakery Workers Union-has given Its president, James G. Cross, “excessive power," and the rank and file cannot oust him before 1961 for alleged abuses of his authority. Cross conceded under questioning by the Senate Rackets Committee that the only check on ‘ his power before the next union convention, held every five years, is the union’s 17-man executive board. He appoints 13 of the members and sets their salaries. The board has backed Cross despite charges by another official and by the Senate committee that he misused union funds. Hells Cayon: Democratic advocates of a federal dam in the Snake River’s Hells Canyon delayed for another week a vote by f which almost certainly would der feat the controversial measure. [ Un-American: A House subcommittee oh un-American activities f was told today that the American . Communications Assn , expelled i from the CIO for alleged Communist domination, poses a "menace and a hazard” to national security. , Adm, Ellery W. Stone, president J of the American Cable & Radio , Corp., testified that possibly 500 international cable and radio workers are not loyal to the United States. He said it would -take only a handful of them to sabotage 1 vital oceanic cable lines and intercept messages in time of emergency. - Projects: The House Public Works Committee wrapped into one package four bills authorizing 130 public works projects, a change (UoattMoa •« Pane Review Girls Stale At Meeting Friday Public Invited By Legion Auxiliary Three reviews of the 1956 Hoosier Girls State at Indiana University will highlight the open meeting of the American Legion auxiliary Friday evening at the Legion home at 8 o’clock. Miss Ann Miller and Miss Catherine Goelz will review their week-long session of learning more about government in brief talks, and the Legion auxiliary will present a film on the 1956 convention for outstanding high school juniors. Daughter of Mrs. Rose J. Miller, 4011 West Adams street, Miss Miller was graduated this spring from Decatur Catholic high school and plans to attend St Agnes Convent at Fond Du Lac; Wise. Miss Goelz, daughter of Mrs. Alma Goelz, 310 North First street, is a 1957 graduate of Decatur high school. She will further her education at St. Joseph’s school of nursing in Fort Wayne. The Adams auxiliary unit spbn- ■ sored Miss Beverly Stevens this June at the 1957 Girls State. Miss Stevens will be a senior at Monmouth high school. Two of the 906 specially selected girls attending the 1956 convention, Miss Miller and Miss Goelz, will tell how they practiced the operation of democratic government in lU’s Smithwood hall, June 23 to July 1 last year. According to Mrs. Dallas Brown, Giris State chairman of the Decatur auxiliary unit, girls states were held in every state and the Panama Canal Zone. The delegates were selected for potential leadership abilities and the training program was designcontinued On Pts* Five

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. Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, July 17,1957 ■ —

Eisenhower Hints He May Accept A Maj or .Civil Rights Change

-n, | ; North Dakota ■ Hammered By • Winds, Rain Report Considerable Damage In Rural t Areas Os State By UNITED PRESS 1 Violent winds, including an unconfirmed tornado, and torrential rains battered North Dakota Tuesday night, causing considerable damage in rural areas north of ■ Bismarck. 1 The unconfirmed twister hit • north of Wing, N.D., and consider- . able wind damage was reported at " nearby Wilton, about 25 miles ' north of Bismarck. Farm buildings r were levelled and power and communications lines were knocked ‘ out in the region. There were no 1 reports of injuries, however. ; Local heavy thunderstorms also ' swept rain-sodden Illinois, touching ’ off new flood threats. Weathermen ; warned further flooding was likely ; in the Kaskaskia River basin, which has been inundated three times this season, and on the Sangamon River in the Riverton ‘ acea during the next few days. , The heaviest rainfall accumula- , tion reported Tuesday was at : in six hours- Other scattered heavy showers dumped .92 inch at Pue- . bio, Colo., and 1.12 inches at MontI gomery, Ala. -S :. ( Cool air continued across the I nation’s Northeast from the Great . Lakes and Ohio Valley to the Atllantic Coast. The Pacific Coast also enjoyed moderate readings. • Warm, humid weather ruled elseJ where, with overnight readings I dropping no lower than the 70s . and 80s. " I. Weathermen predicted partly cloudy skies and scattered thun- . dershowers for most of the country today. Mostly fair skies are . expected along the Atlantic Coast and from Oregon and Idaho south through Nevada and California. No heat relief is seen for the Central and Southern sections of the nation. Record Assessment Os Utilities In Indiana INDIANAPOLIS (UP) — State Tax Board Chairman Joda G. Newsom said today a record $1,182,372,270 has been assessed as property tax on public utilities and railroads in Indiana for 1957. Newsom said that figure topped 1956 by almost 54 million dollars and is expected to provide more than 65 million dollars of the revenue local taxing units will collect next year. S6OO Disaster Fund Is Near To Quota Only $24.30 Short Os Disaster Goal Just $24.30 is needed to meet the S6OO disaster fund goal, Mrs. Wanda Oelberg, executive direc- ’ tor of the Adams county Red Cross, said today. Mrs. Oelberg asked the publie to not forget the disasters in Louisiana and even at Portland, and that aid can be summoned here immediately when neededd because of this fund. No collection will be taken this week at the First State Bank in Decatur, but donations may be brought or mailed to the Red Cross office. The collection in Geneva is continuing this week. The funds were made necessary by the devastating damage of hurricane Audrey in Texas and Louisiana, and part of the money will be used where needed in Indiana. The collection here started July 2, and totaled $222.81 July 6; $310.31, July 8; $332.11 a week ago, July 10; and $514.71 last Saturday, July 13. The collection at the First State Bank Saturday, and others from different parts of the county, brought the total to $575.70.

Child Electrocuted By Television Set / High Voltage Leaks From Portable Set CHICAGO (UP) — A group of electrical experts has decided that £ portable television set was deadip enough to electrocute a 5-year-old boy who died when he touched ■it The electricians and television service experts were assembled by Cook County Coroner Walter J. ; McCarron in an Investigation into 1 the death Sunday of Howard Eh- * renstein. ’ I 8 “In its present condition, this f television set could kill,” the experts told McCarron after a 90t minute study late Tuesday. The engineers demonstrated that 1 high voltage leaks from the unit’s 5 metal case were strong enough to 1 light a 100-watt light bulb. The * bulb was pressed into test use 1 when a voltage meter was found 5 to be defective. ‘ , However, a spokesman for the ’ general Electric Co. in Syracuse, I N.Y., where the portable sets are 1 produced said “under normal cirr cumstances the set couldn’t have Sauspd such an accident." He said aere was no reason to believe that 8 other portable sets are dangerous. 1 The panel, headed by Prof. Eric T Gross of ttie Illinois Institute - Os Technology, also discovered the t set had been dropped after the » youngster suflerwi the-fotal shock f at Ms suburban Skokie home. The - group said it would be difficult to ■ determine if the fall had anything to do with the set’s present dan- * gerous condition. 1 However, they agreed the set appeared to be defective- They ’ said a minute laboratory examination of every part would be required to determine the cause of 1 the high voltage electrical leaks. McCarron said he would ask an impartial engineering group to undertake the detailed examina- ■ tion, and demand that at least “15 or 20 exactly similar sets by the same manufacturer (General Electric) be checked.” t Howard fell dead in the kitchen of his family's home after brush- ; ing against the set, which was placed on an aluminum cart. The Ehrensteins left Monday for Pittsburgh, Pa., where services for Howard Jr. are to be held today. Erwin H. Greenberg, attorney for the victim’s parents, said the coroner ordered the set impounded ' a >v ontlnu«« on Paae six) Scouts Report Fine Time At Jamboree Decatur Boy Scouts At Fourth Jamboree Decatur Boy Scouts at the fourth national jamboree of the Boy Scouts of America report a fine time, including attendance at the live television program, “Big Top” last Saturday. On Friday the Jamboree got underway with a gigantic stage show, a parade of scouts, roll call of the regions, and a brilliant display of fireworks. More than 50.000 scouts attended. The scouts learned that Valley Forge, where they now camp, was the site of a forge that made iron ■ for guns of Washington’s army. In late September, 1777, British soldiers slipped through the lines and destroyed the forge. The remains of the old forge were seen by the Decatur scouts. A civil defense test took place Friday, and all the scouts took part, running for cover when the siren blew. The old wooden huts built by Washington’s troops when they camped at Valley Forge, 1777-78, were also visited by the young men. On Saturday Otto Graham, allAmerican football player from Northwestern, T V’s Harmonica Rascals, Fred Waring, and many others visited the jambo rally campfires of the group. The scouts had to qualify in seven of 15 activities to receive a 1957 jamboree adventure award. Scribe John Krueckeberg reported that all the Decatur boys were well, and enjoying the trip.

Wilson Orders MOOOMan Military Cut Budget-Cutters In ’ House Hail Cutback > In Military Forces WASHINGTON (UP) — House > budget * cutters today hailed De- . tense Secretary Charles E. Wilson's 100,000 - man military cuti back as proof of their claim the . defense budget can be reduced . substantially. Senators were tioust Some military officials feared i the reduction would weaken U.S. * bargaining power In disarmament > disarmament dickering with Rus- > sia. ' 1 The United States has proposed a cutback in U.S., Russian and » British military strength to 2,500,- , 000 men. Some military men fear > if this country cuts too close to - that goal voluntarily it will lose » any leverage cn Russia to do I likewise. t Wilson, with President Eisen- • hower’s approval, Tuesday or- ' dered the armed forces to reduce ! their authorized strength from J 2,800,000 to 2.700,000 by the end ! of this year. Since the services t were I<K3S6 authorized ! i strength at Igst report, this means >lan actual cut of 89,642 men. ! The Army would take half the ■ cut, winding up with a force ot fewer than one million men for ; the first time since the Korean buildup. Wilson indicated further ■ cuts will be considered late next fall. He said the move will not ' materially affect overseas deployment including forces in Western Europe. In a memorandum to Eisenhower, Wilson said the cuts make it possible to reduce by about 200 million dollars the money requested from Congress for personnel, maintenance And operations for (ConncuM on r-s<o Sir) Sara McClymonds Dies This Morning Funeral Services Friday Afternoon Mrs.' Safa * fclKn Mctlymondi, 82, •of Convoy, Ohio, died at the Van Wert county hospital at 6:15 a. m. today. She had been ill for the past year, and was a patient at the hospital for the past 10 days. . The daughter of John and Emma Meyer Harmon, she was born December 13, 1874, in Van Wert county, where she resided her entire life. She married Harrison McClymonds in September of 1897. Her husband died in 1947. Surviving are two sons, Frank, of Decatur, and Clyde of Fort Wayne; two daughters, Mrs. Verona Venis, of Decatur, and Mrs. Opal Dittman of South Bend; a brother, Joe Harmon, of Convoy, Ohio; 13 grandchildren and 19 great-grandchildren; Two daughters, four brothers and two sisters preceded her in death. Funeral services will be held at 2 p. m. Friday, at the Woods Chapel United Brethren church, of which Mrs. McClymonds was a member. The Rev. Albert Straley will officiate, and burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. The body is at the H. D. Smith funeral home in Convoy, where friends may call after 1 p. m. Thursday, until one hour before the services, when it will be taken to the church to lie in state. Jobless Fay Claims Increase To 35,104 INDIANAPOLIS W —The Indiana Employment Security Division reported today that claims for unemployment benefits increased by 555 last week to 35,104. .... The total included 26,923 claims from persons who had filed previously and 8,181 from newly unemployed workers.

Decatur Councilmen In Regular Session Discuss New Water Main Across River I All five members of the citj council met with mayor Sober Cole Tuesday evening, for then regular semi-monthly meeting. During the session, Ralph E Roop, superintendent of the ciU water department, called a spe , cial meeting for 9:30 a. m. todaj , of the water works committee . peltaining to the proposed watei . main across the river. This group met' ’ today" witt | Roop and a committee from the , Youth and Community center headed by chairman Lloyd-Cow ens, to look .over the proposec sight for the new water main. The main, which was petitionee ■ for over four years ago, will be gin in the alley on First street 1 between Monroe and Jacksor ; streets, and will run east dowi ■ the all?y to the city owned park ing lot past the A Sc P parkins * lot, across the parking lot; undei ’ the river-and will cut across par * of the lawn of the -Youth an< Community center, and will fin • ally connect to the water mail ’ on Monroe street extended. - Roop stated this morning tha ! two 12-inch lines, or a dual line ! would extend under the river [ while the Remainder of the lin« Completion of the propose! > main will permit the passage a • water across the river much fast : er than was previously possible After Mrs. Miriam Hall reac the minutes at last night's meeting, she presented a petition for a rural line extension, signed by Clarence and Marjorie Lybarger, of Root township. This was referred to the city light and power committee, in conjunction with the superintendent, L. C. Pettibone. Regular bills were read and allowed, after which Mayor Cole informed the department heads that they are to have their completed budgets turned in by Friday evening. Cole announced that a called meeting will be necessary the latter part of July, for authorizing the bond issue to finance the sewage treatment plant. Repairs to a section of North Second street extended, from U. S. 27 to the beginning of the Continued On Page Five Bloodmobile Visit Scheduled Aug. 6 New Blood Donors Needed In Decatur New blood donors are urgently needed for the bloodmobile visit at the Decatur Youth and Community Center August 6, Mrs. Ed Bauer, chairman of the program, said this morning. New hours, from 11 a. m. until 5 p. m. on . that Tuesday, will allow many to donate this time who were unable to get off work to give blood. The new donors are really needed this time because the last visit of the bloodmobile was only 54 days before this next visit, six days less than the minimum 1 allowed. So no one who gave blood in June can give August 6. A total of 190 persons must be scheduled to provide the 127 pints needed at this visit of the bloodmobile. Those who would.like to find out about giving blood are asked to call the Red Cross office for information. Only 2,391 pints of blood, 540 less than needed, were collected in June in the Fort Wayne regional area. During the summer, Mrs. Bauer said, many go on vacations, increasing the need for a blood supply for use in accidents, but decreasing the number of donors available. Unfortunately, the demand for blood takes no summer vacation, ghe ndded. A list of the most needed types will be given later, Mrs. Bauer said.

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Seeks To Ease Mem Fears *.• - £ - ■ (M Troop Use rt J • J. ? ir Refuses To Commit j. Self On. Amendment ? To Rights Measure * s?Zr?aX atn^th n X s "S h of any Strong-arto® e tion in school integration cases. r, Eisenhower told his weekly news conference he thinks it -would tie d unwise to grant the attorney general power' to initiate Federal d Court suits on his own to force in* 5. tegration in southern schools t „ Southerners claim .that the con- ’ troversial Part 111 of the Presi- _ dent’s bill now before the Senate . would do just that. Eisenhower said that although * he is not a lawyer, he believes .. there should tee no federal interrJ vention in integration cases unless d it is requested "by local authorities. reporters asicea nira ii ne wouia n accept an amendment to his bin providing this. The President said he wanted to wait to see what is f. proposed in the Senate and how r. any changes would affect the total toda S or •d reject. ' ’ t- seemed to lend substance to an ». earlier report received by United d Press from a source qualified to b- speak for the administration that r a major compromise is in the y making. A person qualified to speak, for _ the administration told the United _ Press the controversial Part 111 u of the bill would be substantially altered under the new proposal. - This is the section which weuM authorize the attorney general to - seek injunctions or other civil e court action “whenever any pers sons have engaged or there ate - reasonable grounds to believe that r any persons are about to engage in any aejs or practices which i would" deprive anyone of any p civil rights. \ •„ Troop Backing Feared B Southerners claim tills section, because it is tacked on to Reconl. struction Era “force” statutes, “ would permit the government to ’ enforce school integration with federal troops. The administration amendment would forbid the attorney general to intervene in such cases except by invitation of local authorities such as school boards or playground authorities wishing to end segregation but meeting resistance. President Eisenhower, in a for* mal statement Tuesday night after the Senate voted to formally consider his House - passed racial r rights bill, appeared to leave the t door wide open to such an amend- . ment. Urge* Barty Passage He urged the Senate to pass the bill “without undue delay” and with crippling amendments- But J be restated the four basic objec- * tiveb of his bUI and said one is 5 to provide a reasonable program c of assistance in efforts to protect constitutional rights of citizens. ’ This would fit in with the reported i plan for modification of part 111. < The United Press was informed 1 the administration also would ac- ■ cept two amendments proposed I by Sen. Richard B. Russell (DGa.), leader of the amendents ! opposition to the bill. One would s make the staff director of the - biU’s proposed civil rights com- > mission subject to Senate confirm- ’ ation. The other would forbid the ' ' on raw 1 INDIANA WEATHER I Partly cloudy tonight and * Thursday With scattered thundershowers tonight. ■ Warmer north and central Thursday. Low tonight 64-68 north to around 76 south. - High Thursday upper 80s extreme north to low 90s I south. Sunset 8:11 p. m., sunrise Thursday 5:32 a. m. Outlook for Friday: Fair, hot and humid. Low Thursday night near 79. High Friday