Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 172, Decatur, Adams County, 23 July 1957 — Page 1

Vol. L.V. No. 172

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HERE IS the ceremony in the Pan American -embassy in Washington as Honduras and Nicaragua signed an agreement to take their half-century-old border dispute to the Court of International Justice at the Hague. Signing for Honduras is Foreign Minister George Fidel Duron. The other signer is Alejandro Montiel Arguello, Nicaraguan foreign minister. Standing by is Ricbardo Arias Espinosa, Panama ambassador and chairman of the Organization of American States. v . - ——■ - —-

- - ■ ‘r * Adams County Removed From Disaster Area • • - . 15 Counties Taken As Disaster Area Off List Designated INDIANAPOLIS (UP) — Fifty Indiana counties today were declared a disaster area by the Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson because of crop-destroying , floods and rains. Agricultural authorities were notified here by telephone that the declaration was issued in Washington. The Agriculture Department acted on a petition after 15 counties were removed from the original list A revised petition for relief in the form of low interest loans to farmers whose economy will suffer because of unprecedented 1957 growing season weather was placed on the desk of Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson this moxning State representatives of the Farm and Home Administration indicated they believed Benson would act before the day is over, probably granting a request of Governor Handley authorized at a disaster conference July 12. Cut List to 50 Counties removed from the list > were Delaware, Carroll, Clinton, Tipton, Grant, Huntington, Wells, ; Adams. Madison, Johnson, Brown. Bartholomew, Decatur, Rush and Franklin. The removals cut the list to 50 1 counties, a shade more than half < the 92 counties in Indiana. Hubert Alexander and Robert Demaree of the FHA said the removals did not mean necessarily that crop damage estimates were revised downward. In some cases, the loss was considered borderline in the first place. In other cases, a careful check of local credit potential indicated that farmers needing loans would be able to get them from local private lending agencies. Local Credit Available The 15 were removed, Alexander said, because “there has not been substantial crop damage andor local credit will be available to take care of the farmers’ needs.” In line with required procedures in such. cases, the FHA took the ball after the disaster conference , ended and made further checks in the counties originally listed. The idea was to reduce the list if _ there were counties on it where a serious disaster or, more important, a need for emergency credit failed to exist. Alexander said that because of further recent rains which developed since the conference was held, surveys are being conducted , in some counties in the northwest area of Indiana to determine if they should be added to the list Hardest hit were Jasper and, Newton Counties. William F. Bruhn Dies Here Monday Wflliam F. Bruhn, 7S, who resided With a stepdaughter. Mrs. Mary Inniger, northwest of Berne, died Monday at the Adams county memorial hospital, following a stroke. Also surviving are three daughters, Mrs. Nellie Brace of Brighton, Colo.. Mrs. Elinor Turner of Mun- * cie, and Mrs. Jean Powell of Whiteland; a son, Rollin Bruhn of Detroit; a sister, Mrs. Emma Kohlenberg and a brother, Ed Bruhn, both of Bunker Hill. Services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Hardy and Hardy funeral home in Geneva.

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September's Draft Call Cui To 8,000 3,000 Below Number Called For August WASHINGTON (UP) - The Defense Department today dropped the draft can to 8,000 men for September but/ served notice it does not intend, to eliminate conscription “in the near future.” The September call was 3,000 below the number called for August and was the lowest monthly quota since April. 1956, when 6,000 meg were drafted The draft was slashed to carry out Defense Secretary Charles E Wilson’s recent order to reduce the strength of the services by 100,000 men by next January. The Army, the only service which drafts men. is shouldering half the total manpower cut Wilson ordered. Os its 50,000 reduction, 44,470 will be in the enlisted ranks. In announcing the September call, the Pentagon said “the lower level of calls reflects the decision to reduce the number of personnel in the armed forces ” “Draft calls for the Army will not be eliminated in the near future because of the reduced strengths,” the anno u n c e ment said. There was no definition of the term “near future.” Wilson is known to attach much importance to continuing Selective Service as a strong level for producing volunteers for all the services and for the many reserve programs. He believes that in a time of full employment it would not be possible to keep armed strength of 2,700.000 men without the stimulus of the draft. Entries Are Urged In County Plowing County Contest To Be Held August 8 Farmers interested in plowing are urged to enter the county plowing- contest by August 1, Cletus Gillman, U.S. soil conservationist, said today. Any farmer is eligible for the contest, but only about 12 or 13 will be able to take part, which will be on the Delmas Bollenbacher farm. 5% miles east of Berne and one mile south, on August 8. The equipment used by the farmer does not have to be farmer owned, and several dealers are sponsoring entries. Practice plowing and a tile ditching demonstration will be held in the morning, and the contest itself will take place at 12:30 p.m. There were nine entries in the contest last year, and 13 the year before. Last year’s winner is eligible to take part again this year. The county contest was discussed at a meeting of the soil conservaSaturday night. The state contest tion district supervisors at Berne will also be held in Adams county, and plans for it will be completed in about two weeks. Adams County Events On Radio Program The Adams county 4-H fair and "the plowing contest will be discussed on the Little Red Barn on WOWO at 6:15 a. m. and 11:35 a. m. Wednesday. -- County agent Leo Seltenright, and Ben Mazelin, a soil conservation district supervisor, made tape recordings today with Jay Gould concerning these activities.

Need Entries For 4H Fair Entertainment Give Cash Prizes For Entertainment Winners At Fair Entries are urgently needed for both the 4-H and open entertainment festival nights at the county 4-H fair, July 30-Aug. 1, it was learned at the meeting of the fair committee Monday night. Entries may be made immediately at the county extension office, if entrants are unable to contact their township extension leaders. There will be SSO in prizes for the winners. Both musical and non-musical acts of four to eight minutes in length will be permitted. Tuesday evening the festival will include the non-4-H entries, and Wednesday night the 4-H entries. All 4-H clubs are ashed to have an entry. Blanks are in the 4-H catalog. ) Each division of the fair board preesnted its report on progress. Paul Yoder, chairman of the county extension committee, presided at the meeting. The hog barn will be finished by Monday, including the root, electrical wiring, and cleaning up of building. The commercial tent will be better located this year so that mare people will be able to go through the many displays. Martin Watson, Elden Holsapple, and Kenneth Van Emon will mark off the commercial tent lots at 8:30 Monday morning. A commercial exhibit of nutria, a small fur-bearing animal, will be allowed in the commercial tent ahis year. There were no objections to the application, but it was the first time any animals had been admitted to the display area. The stage will be set up Thursday under the direction of Homer Winteregg, so that the practice dress revue- may be held Friday evening. The food tent committee decided to buy a watermelon cooler tank, a coffee-maker, two new portable steam ovens, and a six by 18 foot tent for storing food as it is brought in. Dr. Harry H. Hebble replaced Carl Stegmeyer as head of the rabbit exhibits, and new chairmen will include Vic Baltzell, for sheep, Mrs. Mike Ehrsam, clothing, and Don Stover, parking. Continued On Ps«e Five Commit Youth To White's Institute 14-Year-Old Boy Is Welfare Ward Because he was “bom for adventure,” a 14-year-old Decatur youth was made award of the Adams county department of public welfare, in juvenile court Monday. He is presently in the juvenile ward of the county jail, waiting committment to White’s Institute, a co-eduactional school for delinquent and neglected children, at Wabash. , The youth in question is one of two boys who "borrowed" their father’s car late Thursday evening, went to Berne where they parked the car in the I.G.A. parking lot, and then proceeded to loot "The Den,” in Berne, which is an ice cream and soft drink store. The 14-year-old and his 10-year-bld foster brother then hopped a freight train to Portland where they stole a car, which was later wrecked near the Jay-Randolph county line. With the help of a nearby farmer, a state trooper who was patroling the area, captured the boys after a lengthy chase through several soybean and corn .fields. At the time, the officer was unaware that the wrecked car was a stolen car, or that the youths had committed the robbery. Although not brought into evidence during yesterday morning’s trial, the father of the boy turned a note the boy had written before leaving Thursday evening, over to probation officer C. H. Muselman. The note was pinned to a pillow on his bed, and read as follows: “I am taking my father's car and hope to see you again in one or two years. I will leave the car some place where dad can find it. I guess I was born for adventure, but I still love you.” i— Before committing the youth to the boys’ school, Judge Myles Parrish stated that he and the local probation officer had thoroughly studied the boy’s case. (Conunave on ra*o

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Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, July 23,1957

House Overwhelmingly Passes Bill To Raise Pay Os Postal Workers

Dulles Warns ; Time Running I — , i Out On Arms ‘ Says Some Slight Progress Made In Arms Negotiations ‘ WASHINGTON (UP) — Secretary of State John Foster Dulles cautioned Monday night that time 1 may be running out on efforts to ■ place nuclear weapons under in- ’ ternational controls. “Time is not unlimited,” he said ! in a nationwide radio-TV address, t “Each year that passes without > agreement adds to the practical - difficulty of achieving adequate I limitation and control.” f He said, however, that “some l slight progress” has been made in current London disarmament negotiations with Russia and there [ is reason to hope for more. [ Arms Development Continues I , Until some firm agreement is I t reached, Dulles said, the United [ . States intends to develop the best! ‘ weapons it can and to keep its ] system of security alliances in-j tact. Dulles* address, approved in ad-[ ’ vance by President Eisenhower,! ) reviewed U.S. disarmament pro-1 iposals and evaluated progress s«r’ far at the four-month-old London) • negotiations among the United : States, Russia, Britain, France r and Canada. ; The speech was designed to j spike recent Soviet efforts to pin on the West any blame if the [ London talks break down. A Detailed Picture Officials said Dulles also felt it . was time to give the American people a detailed picture of US. disarmament proposals. His report was more cautious than a British white paper last week which said “substantial advances” have been made. Dufies assured Americans the United States is not about to give up its nuclear weapons altogether. He said "no one is thinking of disarming the United States or the Soviet Union” but that negotiators are seeking ways of controlling armaments to “reduce the danger of armed attack.” "... Unless international procedures are now devised to bring nuclear weapons under control, ■ the problem may soon become to- ' tally unmarfageatle and we must '■ anticipate that Immense destruci five power would come into the hands of those who might be quite irresponsible,” he said. Mrs. Clara Bischoff Dies This Morning Heart Attack Fatal Early This Morning Mrs. Clara Bischoff, 66, a resident of Union township for 48 years, died suddenly at 8 o’clock this morning at her home, nine miles northeast of Decatur, following a heart attack early this morning. She was born in Huntington Oct. ‘ 22, 1890, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Beaver, and was married to Richard C. Bischoff Nov. 23, 1909. ! Mrs. Bischoff was a member of , the Immanuel Lutheran church. Surviving in addition to her husband are four daughters, Mrs. George Theilacker of Pasadena. Calif., Mrs. Hugh Landis of Kirkland township, Mrs. Michael Hebor , of Pasadena, Calif., and Mrs. Paul . Buesching of Fort Wayne; two sons, Arthur and Carl Bischoff, both of Union township: 13 grand- ’ children; one brother, Burton BeaI ver of Denver, Colo., and one sis- , ter, Mrs. Rebecca Fulton of Hunfi ington. , I Funeral services will be con- , ducted at 1:30 p. m. Friday at ; the Zwick funeral home and at I 2 p. m. at the Immanuel Lutheran church, the Rev. W. C. Vetter > officiating. Burial will be in the , church cemetery. Friends may . call at the funeral home after 7 . p. m. Wednesday until time of the services. The casket will remain closed at the church.

Segregation Trial In Hands Os Jury ; Jurors Warned Not To Consider Issue KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (UP) - A jury of white mountaineers, warned not to consider the issue pf segregation versus integration but whether a lawful order had been violated, received the case of 10 Clinton residents and John Kasper at 10:20 a.m. c.d.t. today. In a 54-minute charge, U.S. District Judge Robert L. Taylor told the 10 men and 2 women on the jury it could convict all 11 defendants or acquit all. But to convict any one of the 10 Cllntonians, it had to convict Kasper also as the “hub" of a Conspiracy to prevent integration of Clinton, Tenn-, High School. By the same token, Kasper could not be convicted alone, said Ithe judge. He scarcely pasued for Ibreath as he went up and down the [legal issues in the case, first local test of the Supreme Court’s 1954 ruling against public School segregation. F The jurors, a housewife, a maFtronly school teacher, five larmiers, a peace justice, a livestock Strader, an assistant bank cashier, la retired railroader and a retired flumberman, were to run down the Bist of defendants one by one. Whey will consider whether each Kad knowledge and understanding the injunction, had conspired ’with Kasper and had committed overt acts in the furtherance of a conspiracy. A verdict could come almost any, time. Conviction could mean up to six months in prison and-or SI,OOO fines for each of the defendants. A great oratorical barrage was directed at the impassive jury of (Continued oa Pase Seven) Jones To Remain As Monmouth Principal Rejects Contract At Sweetser High Loren S. Jones, principal of Monmouth high school for the past four years, has been released from the contract he signed recently with the Sweetser high school system, and will return as principal of the Monmouth school. Omer Merriman, school trustee, in making the announcement this morning, stated that due to a recent operation undergone by Mrs. Jones, the family will remain here. Mrs. Jones, who is the mother of six children, will need to take it easy for the next several months, and the family did not feel it advisable to make the change in positions at this time. Besides his principalship. Jones will also continue to conduct several mathematics classes. — He received his B.S. degree from Ball State Teachers college, in mathematics, industrial arts and physical education, and he completed his master's degree in administration from Purdue University. His first teaching position was a small school in Cass county, after which he served several years in the signal corps. After his discharge, he was an instructor of physical education and shop at the Hoagland school before coming to Monmouth. Merriman stated today that a complete list of the Monmouth faculty for the coming year would be announced within the next several days, and would include the selection of a new coach to replace coach “Porky” Holt, who recently resigned to accept a position at Winchester. INDIANA WEATHER Fair north, partly cloudy south with scatterde showers and thunderstorms south ending tonight. Cooler tonight. Wednesday fair and pleasant. Low tonight 55-63 north to 62-68 south. High Wednesday in the 80s. Sunset 8:06 p. m., sunrise Wednesday 5:37 a. m. Outlook for Thursday: Fair and a little warmer. Low' Wednesday night 60-68. High Thursday mid 80s.

Charge Excess GM Profit On Air Force Pact ; House Probers Gill J For Action To Turn i Back Excess Profit ; WASHINGTON (UP(-House ini vestigators called today for action » to recover some of the allegedly . excess profits General Motors . made building 599 FB4 jet fighters for the Air Force. j Chairman F. Edward Hebert _ (D-La.) of an armed services investigating subcommittee demanded also that disciplinary action be r taken by the Air Force against i employes who approved the GM r contract. ? The Hebert subcommittee made 1 public Monday a General Account- » ing Office .report on what the c GAO called "unreasonably high prices” paid GM under the con- . tract The report said GM chalked . up a profit of $32,940,500 on a $208,998,000 portion of the $375,848,000 contract whereas a profit of j only $15,481,300 had been “cone templated.” s Auditors Allegedly Barred h The GAO, sometimes called the « Congress’ “Watchdog of the Treasdury,” said GM, refused to let gov(fjfernment auditors see its books in a I incompleted defense contracts. Hebert has offered to issue a , subpena to let the GAO auditors „ see the books. General Motors, in a statement issued Monday night, denied any wrong-doing and said it has completed the contract “to the satis- ! faction of the Air Force over two 1 .years ago." It said its profits on the contract was 11.3 per cent of sales before taxes and 5.4 per cent after taxes. “This,” it said, “is a reasonable rate of profit and substantially below the rate. . -realized by GM in its commercial business.” GM Supplied Data It said details of the contract have been a matter of public record for nearly two years and as early as September, 1955, it supplied detailed cost and profit data on the contract to Hebert’s subr committee. B GM said on June 18 of this year il Continued On Page Five I, ■■ e 98-Year-Old Retired s : Farmer Dies Monday j Wm. Michaels, Sr. Is Taken By Death ' William Michaels, Sr., 98-year-old Monroe township retired far- _ mer, died at 3:30 p. m. Monday at the Cooper reSt home at Bluffton. He suffered a fractured hip in a fall at his home two miles west of Monroe in May of 1956, , end had been ill since that time. * He was born near Bremerhafon, Germany, June 7, 1859, a son of John and Frederika BuggelMichaels, and came to the Unit--5 ed States when 17 years of age, r living at Bloomington, 111., until 1 moving to Monroe township in ‘ 1910. He was married to Mary [ Elizabeth Vanderkar Jan. 15, 5 1885. Mrs. Michaels died Aug. 7, > 1931. Mr. Michaels was a member of 1 the German Lutheran church in ■ Germany, where he was confirm- - ed, and attended the Winchester 1 U. B. church. Surviving are three sons, Mar- » ion of Washington township, Harf ry of Claypool and James A. t Michaels of Monroe township; six grandchildren; one greatgrandchild, and one sister, Mrs. Fred Steilen of, Brooklyn, N. Y. One son, William, Jr., three brothers and one sister are deceased. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p. m. Thursday at the Zwick funeral home, the Rev. L. A. Middaugh officiating. Burial will be in the Ray cemetery, west of Monroe. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o’clock this evening until time of the services.

Heavy Rains Hit In Indiana Last Night Storms Accompany Rush Os Cool Air By UNITED PRESS Heavy rains and thunderstorms in Indiana late Monday and today killed one person and set off a window-rattling explosion in a steel plant that hurt two other?. A four-inch downpour drenched Lafayette and sent the Wabash ■ River on a rapid rise, but no 1 serious effects were reported. ’ Rainfall measuring between one ’ and two inches was common in » many southern and northern Indiana areas, - 1 The storms accompanied a rush • of cooler air from the northwest - which cut off a four-day hot spell ; with temperatures in the 90s *• throughout Hoosierland1 At least two persons drowned Monday seeking relief from the heat. Thomas L. Curtis, 19, LaPorte, s was killed by a lightning bolt 1 Monday while he operated a weed ~ mower for the State Highway De--1 partment along U.S. 20 near Mich--1 igan City. Z Water Hite Hot Slag A rainstorm at Kokomo was ' blamed for an explosion Monday night in the Continental Steel Corp, at Kokomo. Water flowing into an open hearth furnace pit collided with hot slag and a steam " explosion injured two crane operators and blew the roof and three ' sides from a corrugated steel : buildtag. The blast shook a six--5 block area around the plant. . RainfaU at the Purdue Unlver- . sity airport in West Lafayette measured 4.07 inches and in Lafayette 3.95. Observers said three ‘ inches fell in two hoursOther heavy measurements included Petersburg 2-23 inches, ' Portland 1.12, Anderson 1.12, ! Muncie 1.35, Spencer 1.41, Shelby- ’ ville 1.30, Williams 1.48, Shoals ’ 1.38 and Martinsville 1.55. The rainfall was general, how- ’ ever, Evansville got nearly an tach and Indianapolis, South Bend and Fort Wayne in the neighborhood of half an tach. Nearly an inch fell in Indiana areas near Cincinnati and LouisvilleMonticello got its third torrent 1 in 10 days with 1.50 inches falling. ’ Last week a flash flood when a rain measured at between 4 and 6 inches sent streams and lakes on a sudden rise. A few days , before that, nearly three inches fell in another storm. Brings Heat Relief Most of the new rains, howeveg. were welcome. Some areas have been dry in the last couple of Woeics« The relief from the heat also was generally welcome. Temperatures hit highs Monday ranging from 84 at South Bend to 92 at Evansville as the sultry wave ■ continued. They dropped during (CoiDunuea on Page Seven) r ; Youth Uninjured In i Wreck Monday Night Only Slight Damage In Freak Accident 1 An accident at 11:40 p. m. Moni day sent a car and its young r driver across a road, off the , berm, down an embankment, • through a fence, and into a cornfield, but miraculously no one t was injured, and the car-sustain- > ed only $75 in damages. The freak accident occurred on • U. S. 33, a mile and a half south and east of Pleasant Mills, as ■ Donald A. Sudduth, 17, of 716 ■ Schirmeyer street, tried to avoid - colliding with an oncoming semi. The youth told investigating ■ officers, state trooper Al Coppes • and sheriff Merle Affolder, that • he saw a semi coming around the J curve toward him, and to avoid - the collision, he pulled off to the right on the berm. In an attempt to get back on ! the roadway, he lost control of - his car, skidded back across the 1 highway, fell off the left side t berm, down an embankment, t through a fence on the John King c farm, and landed in his cornfield. b Damage to the fence amounted to approximately S2O.

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House Defies Hint Os Veto By Eisenhower President Strongly Opposed To Hike As Inflationary Move By UNITED PRESS The House defied hints of a presidential veto today and overwhelmingly passed a bill to raise postal workers’ pay $546 a yearThe measure now goes to the Senate. The House vote was 379-38. ‘ President Eisenhower has l strongly opposed the pay boost, . which would affect 518,000 postal ’ employes. He said it would be , inflationary. , Other congressional news: Schools: Republican Legislative leaders quoted President Elseni hower as saying he is not entirely satisfied with the House school aid bill but would accept it. This angered Democratic supporters of the measure. They had hoped tor a strong presidential appeal for passage. ‘ Civil Rights: Senate Democratic [ Leader Lyndon B. Johnson ac- , eused Republicans and northern [ Democrats of filibustering in an . effort to salvage the most hotly . disputed part of the ctail rights , bill. Republican leaders earlier I had told President Eisenhower that this section. Part HI, faces ' probable defeat. It would permit the government to seek injunctions ' against conspiracies to deprive a person of any civil rights. Johnson, ’ a Texas, said supporters of the bill were stalling a vote on a proposal to kill Part 111. He called it “this coalition filibuster ” . Rackets: The Senate Rackets Committee said Loyd Klenert, secretary-treasurer of the United Textile Workers, charged merchandise such as brassieres, slips, radios, and a television set to the union. The committee said he did it by including these items on union-paid hotel bills. , Navy: The House Armed Services Committee approved a Ml to authorize the Navy to scrap the battleship Kentucky and six other unfinished World War II stops worth a total of $123,800,000. The Navy said the ships had a junk value of only three million dollars. To convert them to atomic age uses would cost too much. Cigarettes: A House Committee asked Surgeon General Leroy E. Burney and Dr. John R. Heller of the Public Health Service whether filters cm cigarettes do any good. Both said they don’t know. Local Man's Niece Dies In Illinois Word was received here Monday of the death of a niece of Morris Begun, Bessie Abramovitz, of Rockford, 111. Mr. and Mrs. Begun will fly to Chicago, 111., today for the funeral, and will return later in the week. Plan Calling List For Blood Donors A calling list has been drawn up to contact blood donors for the visit of the Red Cross bloodmobile in early August, Mrs. Wanda Oelberg, Red Cross executive secretary, said today. Cards are ready to mail to donors who cannot be contacted by telephone. The telephone committee will start working next week. Meshberger Low On Two Rood Projects Meshberger Bros. Stone C., Linn Grove, submitted the low bid today on two resurfacing projects on federal highways in Adams county, the Indiana state highway department announced this afternoon. The Meshberger bid totaled $135,352 for 6.511 miles of U.S. 224 from Decatur to the Ohio line, and for 1.538 miles of U.S. 27 from onshalf mile south of the south corp--1 oration line of Decatur to Nuttman avenue. • „