Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 174, Decatur, Adams County, 25 July 1957 — Page 1

Vol. LV. No. 174

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YL* K jH| APPEARING BEFORE a House Armed Services subcommittee. Navy Secretary Thomas Gates (left) chats with Army Secretary Wilbur Bnicker. They attended hearings on a bill which would require the. Army, Navy and Air Force secretaries to make final decisions on whether a G. I. should be turned over to foreign courts for trial when accused of off-duty crime.

Favor Higher . Type Youths Drafted First House Committee For Disqualifying Men With Low IQ By UNITED PRESS The House Armed Services Committee voted today to let President Eisenhower draft more intelligent young men into the Army. It did so unanimously after only a few minutes of Draft Director Lewis B. Hershey said there is a surplus of draftable young men and “you can’t justify compelling the government to use less than the best." Hershey and spokesmen for the Army and Defense Department said disqualifying men of low intelligence would save money, be- • ’ cause they are hard to train, and would promote efficiency and good discipline. Otner congressional news: Nomination: The Senate Commerce Committee approved the controversial nomination of Jerome K. Kuykendall for another five-year term on the Federal Power Commission. Several committee members opposed Kuykendall because they did not like his views on public power. Civil Rights: Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson urged that the civil rights bill be amend•ed to provide jury trials for persons accused of violating the voting rights of others. Pensions: The US. Chamber of Commerce opposed proposals to make employers publish details of sompany-operated pension and welfare funds. A spokesman, Frank B. Cliffe, told the House Labor Committee such disclosure would be misused in collective bargaining. Airlines: The Senate Commerce Committee acted to give a financial lift to the nation’s certified “feeder" It approved a bill authorizing government guarantees up to 90 per cent on loans to the smaller airlines for purchase of equipment. School Aid: House supporters of ' ’ the federal school construction bill all but gave up today. A few House Republicans sought to get to President Eisenhower to tell him that only a strong lastminute plea by him could save the $1,500,000,000 compromise measure. But White House Press Secretary James C. Hagerty said he knew of no plans by Eisenhower to issue such a special appeal before the vote on the bill expected by tonight. Hagerty repeated his previous i statements htat "the President wants a school bill. He disagrees on some of the details of the pending bill but it is acceptable to him.” Even the most optimistic vote estimate still shows 30 or more votes would be needed for passage A similar bill was killed last ye-~ this year’s bin would authorize the leoerai government to spend 300 million dollars annually for ' - four years to help states build needed schools. Other congressional news: Communists: Rep. H. Allen Smith (R-Calif.) introduced a bill calling for Ones and jail sentences for persons who “knowingly and wilfully" are members of the Communist Party with knowledge of its purposes. Members would be fined up to SIO,OOO and subject to up to 10 years imprisonment. Hells Canyon: Sen. Richard L. Neuberger charged the Eisenhower administration and the GOP with betraying the public interest in working tor defeat of the Hells Canyon Dam bill. The House Interior Committee killed the bill 16-14. Rackets: Senate Rackets ComContimied On Pare Flye

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Claim Cancer Agent Found In Cigarette Way Os Elimination Is Claimed By Firm WASHINGTON (UP)—A Cleveland research firm claimed today it has discovered a cancer-produc-ing agent in cigarettes—and away to eliminate ft. At the same time, Prof Harry S. N. Greene, head of the pathology department at Yale Medical School, oooh-poohed various medi- ; ■ cal reports indicating a relation1 ship between smoking and ling 1 cancer. He said such findings are based on statistical studies and ’ that “statistics do not in themselves establish a cause and esT feet relationship.” 5 For example, Greene, said, by r using statistics alone it might be - possible to conclude that since bald-headed men frequently occus py the front row in burlesque t houses, “the continued close ob- - sarvation of chorus girls in tights - caused loss of hair from the top i of the head " . 1 However, Dr. S 2. Cardon. a chemist for the Rand Development ' Corp, of Cleveland, said his firm - found that a “known cancer-pro-s ducing agent” called “3,4, benzy- - pyrene" occurred in condensed r tars of smoke from cigarettes as[ I well as cigarette paper and cigars, i Cardon and Greene made their • statements in testimony prepared i for the House Government Opera- , tions Subcommittee investigating • cigarette filters. I Cardon told the congressmen ■ that 3,4 benzypyrene was found • more in smoke from the paper I - than the tobacco in cigarettesHe said cigarettes can be treat- i f ed with ammonium sulfamate to | > “reduce by a large factor or eliml inate entirely” the benzypyrene. I > Jobless Pay Claims ! Are Little Changed i INDIANAPOLIS (UP) — The < [ Indiana Employment Security 1 Division said today that claims , for unemployment benefits were 1 . about the same last week as the i . week before. 1 A total of 35,091 claims were I ! filed, including 6,075 from persons 1 i newly unemployed. The total al- * though little changed from the : week before was more than 10,000 ! • below the figure for the Corre- t spending week in 1956. Scattered Showers ; In Central Plains l< Pleasant Weather t For Eastern U. S. 1 • By UNITED PRESS < A warm, humid air mass, sand- t , wiched between cool, clear weath- 1 , er in the East and Northwest, 1 , brought scattered thundershowers 1 today to sections of the central Plains and the upper Mississippi 1 , Valley. ( i Mostly pleasant weather pre- i vailed over the eastern third of the < [ nation today as cool northerly t breezes pushed as far south as the i Gulf States. i In the central Appalachians, 1 Philipsburg, Pa., reported an ear- < i ly morning low of 43 degrees, 5 s I degrees cooler than Fraser, Colo., : in the high Rockies. Cool air also thrust eastward [ from the Rockies into the northern ; Plains, touching off thunderstorms Wednesday night over the southern Plains. Douglas, Ariz., was soaked with 1.95 inches of rain, exceeding by 4 inch that city’s normal rain- • fall "for the entire month of July Earlier, Hobart, Okla., and Dodge City. Kan., were drenched with heavy downpours, and more , than 5 inches of. rain was reported . at Walter, Okla , in the southern part of the state. «

United States Urges Big Five Ban Missiles Ban On Missiles Should Be Feature Os Disarming Pact LONDON <UP) — The United States declared today that the atomic “Big Five” powers should bah the military use ot intercontinental missiles before ft is too late to control them. Presidential disarmament adviser Harold E Stassen told the five-power disarmament conference here that a ban on missiles, which he described as the ultimate weapon, should be a feature of any first-step arms pact. Stassen said a committee of experts should be designated by the conference powers—the United States, Britain, Canada; France and Russia—to work out means of imposing and supervising the ban. The U S. delegate said the commission should start work within three months after the proposed treaty is ratified. Deputy Foreign Minister Valerian Zorin, Russia’s representative at the conference, expressed no opinion on the U.S. proposal.' He said merely that he will “study it carefully.” The Western powers had agreed to go ahead with the U.S. plan despite the harsh tone of Soviet Premier NA. Bulganin's latest letter to Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. Hoosier Killed In Navy Plane Crash INDIANAPOLIS (IB — Mr. and Mrs. Edd C. Lang, Indianapolis, were informed by the Navy Wednesday that their son, Lt. Jg. Edd R. Lang, 24, was one of 10 men killed in the crash of a Neptune patrol plane Tuesday off Barbar’s Point, HaVaii. Held For Robbery Os Stores At Noblesville NOBLESVILLE (IB — Authorities today held Randy James, 43, South Bend, in connection with the armed robbery of two stores here Wednesday. An armed bandit took S4OO from an open safe in a shoe store only minutes after he took $55 from a dime store a block away. Holds Out Hope Os Living Cost Drop Expert Sees Chance Os Food Price Drop WASHINGTON (UP) — A top government economist held out hope today that the cost of living will stop climbing next month for the first time in nearly a year. Ewan Clague, commisisoner of labor statistics, voiced the hope following his announcement that consumer prices for June had gone up % of 1 per cent to hit another all-time high — 120.2 per cent of average 1947-49 prices. Clague predicted prices would rise slightly in July to stay on the ‘ elevator which has tarried them up nearly 5 per cent since March of last year. He also said chances are good prices will decline in August and September. But he said he expects another rise in October and then a levelling-off — possibly a decline — in November and December. Clague reasoned: Higher food prices accounted for most of the increase in June and probably will do the same in July. But in August, local crops of fruits and vegetables coming to market are expected to reduce food costs, which amount to nearly 30 per cent of the average family’s budgetSummer sales of clothes and furniture at lower prices also should help drop living costs across the nation. Dealer discounts on unsold 1957 cars probably will get larger as the year runs out. But Clague warned that prolonged drought in the East pight drive up some food prices and upset his predictions. INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy tonight and Friday. A tittle warmer Friday. Low tonight 56-65. High Friday in the 80s. Sunset 8:05 p. m., sunrise Friday 5:38 a. m. Outlook for Saturday: Fair or partly cloudy and a little warmer. Lows Friday night in the 60s. High Saturday mid 80s north, near 90 south. 12 Pages

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Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, July 25,1957

Governor Promises To Clamp Down On Laxity Leading To Scandal — . ... - - - . • 1 — ■■ - - - -

______ Implies Road Scandals Exist At County Level Legislative Study Group Head Hints At County Scandals INDIANAPOLIS (UP)-A state senator who heads a new Indiana legislative study group implied today that Hoosier highway scandals exist on a county as well as a state level. Sen. Ruel W. Steele (R-Bedford), who is chairman of a new highway study subcommittee, told Governor Handley: “The county roads situation is hotter than a firecracker alj over the state ” Steele, whose home is in a county where a grand jury earlier this week criticized the highway superintendent and said he should I be fired, said county departments . are as “loosely run” as the state department. “There is no question there have i been abuses on the county level,” i Steele said. f Handley asked the subcommittee to “feel your way along” for a month ot so “then let’s sit down anddiscuss the whole thing.” First person to appear befoge the committee in its first meeting since the 1957 Legislature crqdted , it was John Peters, chairman of the highway department. Peters suggested placing the department on a fiscal year basis coinciding with a calendar year so a departing administration could not spend dry a fund established for a year ending six months beyond its term. Steele said highway scandals could “happen under any administration” because operations estab- , lished by law are “too loose.” Steele said the group’s inquiry , will be “exhaustive” and its aim will be to recommend new legislation or amendments to existing laws which need to be tightened to prevent recurrence of loose practices in the highway department. . 1 Scandals in the department during the administration of former Gov. George N. Craig have re- , suited in grand jury investigations in Marion and Lake Counties and the indictment of five men in IndiKUNe SIXJ Wheeler Is Ordered Freed From Prison Disobeyed Orders On Type Os Haircut FUCHU, Japan (UP)-Airman , 3c Donald Wheeler whs ordered , released today from prison be- ■ cause of errors in the court-mar- , tial which convicted him of dis- , obeying orders to get a "white sidewall” haircut. Wheeler, of Cortez, Colo., was ' sentenced to four months impris- ’ onment at hard labor, fined S2OO ' and reduced in rank for disobey- 1 ing the order to get a haircut he 1 claimed would make him look like 1 a "shaved jackass.” Col. Charles W. Johnstone, commander of the 6,000th Support ( Wing at the US. air station here 1 issued a statement ordering the 1 airman released from confinement ( and returned to duty. 1 “I have reviewed the courtmartial case of Airman Donald ( Wheeler and have found certain cumulative errors and procedural irregularities in the trial. For , these' reasons, I have this date dis-g □ approved the findings and sentence of the; court.” Johnstone said that normally un- 1 der such circumstances a new ' trial would be ordered. But he ' said he had talked with the young ■ airman and “I am convinced that 1 he has undergone a considerable 1 change of attitude.” "In view of this," Johnstone ; said, “I do not consider that fur- 1 ther trial would serve the cause of justice, tiie Interest of the Air ( Force or the individual. I have ( therefore ordered Airman Wheeler , released from confinement and re- . turned to duty.”

Contract Is Signed For Sewage Plant P Official Contract Signed With Yost Mayor Robert Cole and clerktreasurer Miriam Hall today signed the official contract awarding the construction of an interceptor sewer and sewage treatment plant, garbage disposal facilities and lift station, to the Yost Construction Co. Represented by Calvin L. Yost and Robert L. Yost, the local concern was low bidder of the entire project, with $974,292.20 The contract was taken to Indianapolis today, where it was executed by a surety bond firm. Members of the city council will, meet in special session this evening, to I formally approve the contracts as signed today. Advertisements will be published within the next few weeks, and bonds to raise the money for the project will be offered for sale August 27, at which time bids for the bonds will be opened. A tentative starting date of September 1 was agreed upon this morning by the contractors and city officials. In bidding for the contract, Yost’s stated that completion would come within 400 days of the actual starting date. The large plant will be located ls» acres of land just north of Monmouth bridge, which was given to the city by the Central Soya Co., for the sole purpose of the sewage plant construction. A covenant, between the city board of works and Central Soya, was signed recently, whereby the city 1 agreed to landscape and maintain , the property. ft Consoer, Townsend & Associates, : Consulting engineers of Chicago, has been the firm working with ' the city on the proposed million 1 dollar project. Plans and specifications were drawn up by them, entailing the exact type of plant the city has need of, and they will act as consultants for Yosts, in seeing that construction follows all original plans. Two Men Injured As Train Smashes Auio I Auto Struck Here By Switch Engine City police are continuing their 1 investigation of a train-car acci- | dent occurring Wednesday evening, in which two men escaped serious 1 injury. A car driven by Ralph Conrad, ] 35, of Preble going east on 1 Washington street,, was struck in 1 the left side by a Pennsylvania 1 railroad switch engine, traveling south. The impact pushed the car < 72 feet down the tracks, before it 1 came to a halt. The accident occur- ] red at 9:50 p.m.- ( Conrad and Louie Bucher, 43, of 1 419 North Third street, who was a , passenger in the car, were taken ] to the Adams county memorial hospital. Bucher received a cut on j the bridge of the nose, and a bruis- 1 ed right leg, and following treat- . ment, was dismissed. 1 Conrad received a deep lacera- ] tion on his forehead and skull, a 1 bruised right wrist and a contusion 1 above the right knee. The cut ne- 1 cessitated 10 stitches. X-rays were 1 taken this morning, but reportedly < revealed no injuries other than those external ones. Al Nem, city police officer investigating the accident, stated this < morning, that when he talked to two men at the hospital last nierht, they both claimed that they < had stopped at the crossing. Be- ' cause anumber of boxcars obscur- 1 ed their vision, they were unable 1 to see the oncoming engine, which 1 was in the process of pulling nine ’ loaded cars off the siding. Halfway across, Bucher saw the engine light and yelled for Conrad to “hold ft," ' but it was too late. The Washington street railroad ’ crossing has been a matter of concern to police for some tritfe, as it has no warning lights or gates, and the crossing is not always guarded. 1 Continued On Pare Five 1

i i».ii W n— —l Explosion Rips Hole In Plane, Man Missing Presume Passenger Blown From Plane Over California GEORGE AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (UP)—An explosion ripped a four-by-seven-foot hole in a Western Air Lines plane today. A passenger was missing and presumed to have been blown out of the craft. The airline said pilot Capt. Milt Shirk, Los Angeles, radioed at 7:37 a.m. c.d.t. that he had declared an emergency existed aboard the Convair-240 because a rear window had blown out. Two minutes later he reported that a large hole had been blown in the airplane while flying at 10,000 feet Shirk landed at this Air Force base where military authorities took charge. Twelve persons were listed on the passenger manifest of flight 39 when the plane left Las Vegas, Nev. Only 11 were counted when the plane made its emergency landing here. Three passengers said they had seen a man identified as S.F. Binstock, of North Hollywood, Calif., enter the plane’s lavatory shortly after takeoff. They said they never saw him leave the cubicle. The section ripped out of the plane was at the lavatory. Stewardess Joan Hollinger, who was preparing coffee for the passengers at the time of the explosion, said she did not notice Binstock entering the lavatory. There were no reports of injuries to any of the other passengers or to the crewmembers. Services Saturday For Mcßride Youth 13-Year-Old Boy Died Tuesday Night Funeral services will be held Saturday for Vernon Mcßride,l3, who died in his sleep Tuesday night at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Mcßride, in French township, four and one-half miles west and one mile south of Coppess Corners. The boy had been in ill health for the past four years. He was born in St. Mary’s township July 3, 1944, a son of Robert J. and Bernice Tumbleson-Mc-Bride. He was a member of the Winchester ■ U.B. church and was a student in the eighth grade at the Adams Central school. Surviving in addition to his parents are three brothers, Dwayne. Brice and Gerald, and a sister. Ellen, all at home: the maternal grandmother, Mrs. Harley Tumbleson of Jefferson township, and the paternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Ira Mcßride of Decatur. Services will be conducted at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at the Winchester U.B. church, the ReV. Dennis Johnson and the Rev. Dale Osborne officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetary. Friends may call at the Zwick funeral home after 7 o’clock this evening. The body will lie in state at the church from 12:30 p.m. Saturday until time of the services. Red Cross Disaster Quota Is Subscribed The Adams county disaster quota of $6Ol for the American Red Cross was met today with an anonymous contribution of sls, Mrs. Wanda Oelberg, executive secretary of the Red Cross, said this morning. The contribution was made following a plea in the newspaper by Mrs. Oelberg last week, reminding the public that only sls was needed to bring the fund up to the quota. Collections were taken in the First State Bank of Decatur and the Bank of Geneva, agd Berne contributed from its community fund.

10th Nuclear Blasi Fired This Morning , Explosion Is Fired From Balloon Today ATOP ANGELS’ PEAK, Nev. (UP)—The Atomic Energy Commission touched off the 10th nuclear explosion of its 1957 summer test series at 8:30 a m. c.d.t. today from a captive balloon anchored 500 feet above the Nevada proving grounds. ’ The blast was so bright it made 1 the morning sun appear to dim by ‘ comparison. Its fireball lasted for ’ approximately 10 seconds and the 1 familiar mushroom pattern fol- • lowing the blast rose quickly. Some 15 seconds after'the blast : the mushroom’s top became ob- ■ scured at about 20,000 feet by a ’ driving cloud. Dust stirred and 1 tumbled on the floor of the desert. 1 The mushroom rose above the cloud within two minutes and still 1 was rising at the 30,000 foot level. 1 At this level it appeared to lean ' slightly eastward as it drifted slowly higher. The explosion was seen by reporters at this unofficial vantage j point some 8,900 feet above sea level. The test was closed to news ’ media. f “Owens,” today's test name designation, was a design of the Uni--1 versity of California radiation labr ‘'below nominal,” possibly equal ■ to more than 10,000 tons of TNT. ■ II ■■ * Indiana Man Killed ’ When Plane Crashes LEBANON ffl — Lyle Clark, 55, Mount Summit, was killed Wednesday when his light plane ■ crashed during a landing attempt in a grain field east of Mechanicsburg. The plane did not bum, but Clark was killed outright by the force of the impact which crushed the cabin. Drought Burns Up East Coast Crops 11 Eastern States On Disaster Brink By UNITED PRESS Ohe of the worst droughts to hit the eastern United States since 1900 is burning up fruit, vegetable and tobacco crops from Maine to Virginia .lowering water reserves to below-normal levels, and searing woodlands tinder dry. Unless soaking rains end the three-month dry spell that has brought 11 eastern states to the brink of agricultural disaster, losses to farmers, florists and home gardeners may reach the 50 to 75 million dollar mark by the end of the month. Crops now being harvested are 40-80 per cent below normal and market prices are resultingly higher. The next four days may spell relief or disaster for the area, but the U.S. Weather Bureau is holding out no hope of relief- The bureau is predicting little or no rainfall for the week end and no appreciable precipitation in the foreseeable future. Rainfall has been about 60 per cent below normal in the Middle Atlantic and New England States since May 1. States affected by the drought are Maine, New Hampshire, . Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware and Virginia. Only Vermont and sections of upstate New York have had sufficient rainfall. Former Decatur Lady Is Taken By Death Word has been received here of the death July 15 of Mrs. Lillian S. Gard, 63, at Asheville, N. .C. She was a former resident of Decatur ang has resided in Asheville the past seven years. Surviving are a daughter. Miss Jeannette. Gard, and a sister, Miss Agnes Southard of Dayton, 0.

Pledges Moves To Tighten Up State Control Handley Meets With State Finance Board On Embezzlements INDIANAPOLIS (UP) — Gover- ’ nor Handley clamped down today ' on laxities which paved the way ’ for two sizable embezzlements disclosed this week in Indiana governmental operations. Handley promised executive or- • | • ders to tighten controls over state employes and officials who handle i public funds, and recommendations that the next Legislature act ’ to place further strings on money- : handling government agents. 1 Thy. action came in an early* ' morning conference of the gover- ! nor and his state finance board, 1 called within 36 hcurs after a $200,000 embezzlement was re- - vealed in the Perry County treas- ’ urer's office at Cannelton and an » embezzlement of “several thou--3 sand dollars’* showed up in tie Intangibles Tax Division of the - State Revenue Department. Must Be Bonded - First, Handley said he would 1 issue an executive order requir- ‘ tag state employes who handle V F 1 money to be bonded. They are I ‘i presently bonded if they so re- • quest. But Handley’s order will force them to make such requests. The governor said the State Board of Accounts will scrutinize and approve all bonds hereafter and they will be filed in the office of State Secretary Frank Leaning. These steps are not now required. ' Handley said also that sorne- ; thing must be done to improve the auditing situation in govern- ■ mental units. “We’re going to have to do something to tighten up these audits,” he said- But he did not make a specific recommendation, in the light of information from Chief Examiner Thomas Hindman that there are only 125 auditors available for examining records that would require 5,500 reports if every office were checked annually. Hindman reported he asked the State Budget Committee before the 1957 Legislature met to allow, funds for increasing the examiner staff. But the committee turned down the request. New Law Proposed Referring to the Canpelton shortage which jeopardized the solvency ot Perry County and resulted in the arrest of Treasurer Earl Kieser, Handley said he will recommend legislation for the 1959 Legislature! “so this can’t happen again.’’ “The healthiest situation would be an audit of all state accounts at least once every two years,” Handley said. , Meanwhile, examiners sought to learn the full scope of the shortage in the intangibles tax office, where administrator Frank Noll, Jr„ was fired last week. Others probed the Perry County records to see how much was missing and to determine how systematic filching of funds over a period of years could have escaped the attention of state depository banks and other county officials. Illinois Youth Is Drowning Victim HAMMOND (IP) — Jerry Pyle, 13. Calumet City, DI., drowned Tuesday while swimming in Wolf Lake here. Three 15-year-old friends, with whom the boy swam beyond a guarded area to an offshore island tried to save him but failed. West Lafayette Boy Drowns In Kentucky WEST LAFAYETTE (W — Robert James Christopher, 10, West Lafayette, drowned in Kentucky Lake State Park Wednesday as he and two relatives were swim* ming. Robert, his brother and . sister-in-law were visiting at nearby Hopkinsville, Ky., when the accident happened. > <*

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