Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 175, Decatur, Adams County, 26 July 1957 — Page 1

Vol. LV No. 175

INCOME TAX BILL FOR 1 CENT a, <«J "-„fc... fc' I I * • -uiWtfj - - ■ - I '*> J MRS. RUBY CROSBY holds up her income tax bill from the U. S. Treasury department, informing her she owes $.Ol. in Los Angeles. By spending IS cents for a check and 3 cents for postage, plus the 1 cent, she can “get right” for 19 cents, or 19 times the bill.

Tax Valuation In County Up Two Millions County's Assessed Valuation Mounts Over $45 Million Adams county's 1957 assessed valuation has increased nearly two million dollars, twice the Wells county increase of $982,460, and almost twice the Jay county increase of $1,057,245. Os the 18 taxing units in Adams county, only Decatur-Root showed a slight decrease in assessments. In Jay county four of 18. and in Wells county, five of 19 taxing units showed decreases. Tire figures concerning Adams county are part at a report being compiled by county auditor Edward F. Jaberg and htt deputies for the state board of accounts. The assessed valuation of the county is now $45,380,245, as compared with $43,430,440 last year. Jay county’s assessed valuation is $40,242,315, and Wells county's assessments amount to $40,365,020. The assessments are used to figure next year’s tax rates. If the assessments are up, the rates , necessary. >to raise the same ■nnount of money go down. If the assessment is down, the rates go up. The assessor's problem is to keep each person’s rate comparable with the other individuals in the taxing unit. Decatur's valuation increased . to $11,084,290 from $10,899,890, an increase of $184,400. Valuations may increase because of new buildings or improvements, or ( because of a change in assessments on present buildings. Bluffton's increase this year was $73,760, and Portland’s $296,015. Monroe's assessment also in-. creased to $451,000 from $423,940, an increase of $27,060 in taxable property valuation. Berne showed the greatest increase of ' any of the towns or cities, $246,- ... 665, or nearly a quarter of a million dollars. The figure increased from $3,926,280 to $4,172,945. ! Geneva increased $144,780, from $1,166,910 to $1,311,690. Township figures are: exclud- • ing city and town assessments: Preble, 1957, $2,743,890; 1956, $2,- i 645,690, an increase of $98,200; Root, 1957, $3,298,010; 1956, $3,- j 134,890, an increase of $163,120; , Union, 1957, $1,866,510; 1956, sl,- j 830,830, an increase of $55,680; St. Mary's, 1957. $2,346,260; J 1956, $2,213,020, an increase of $133,240; Washington, 1957, $3,393,750; 1956. $3,260,440, an in- ' crease of $133,310; Kirkland, 1957, J $2,180,700; 1956, $2,132,210, an increase of $83,960; Monroe, 1957. $3,179,890; 1956, 1 $2 989,150, an increase of $190,740; ‘ Blue Creek. 1957, $1,633,540; 1956, 1 $1 547,230, an increase of $86,310; 1 French. 1957, $1,845,570; 1956, sl.-. . 780,580, an increase of $64,890; Wabash, 1957, $2,359,630; 1956, $2,169,850, an increase of $189,780; Jefferson, 1957, $1,507,680; ' 1956 $1,472,240, a difference of $35,440; Hartford, 1957, $1,984,890; 1 1956 $1,837,290, an increase of ' $147,600. Township figures varied from • the increase of $190,740 in Monroe 1 township to the increase of $35,440 in Jefferson township. ■ The report also included totals rnd average assessment made in i several fields. In Adams county < 1,621 farm implements, with an < average assessment of $930 each, : were assessed. This compares ’ with 1,636 farm implements as- i sessed at an average of SBBS ' each in Wells county. i Items assessed and their aver- j ace valuation per unit are as fol- < * Continued On Pag* Five

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Annual Meeting Is Held By Red Cross Activities Os Past Year Are Reported The annual reorganization and report meeting of the Adams county chapter of the American Red Cross reports that 766 members of that organiation gave 1,931 hours of service to the entire county. An additional 2,323 hours of volunteer work went into the blood program. Activities for the past year included being host to the sectional luncheon and meeting on federated fund raising, with 17 chapters represented; doctors, ambulances, and first aid volunteers present at the sectional basketball tournament and county tournament; the Berne fall festival, and the 4-H fair. Volunteers included board members, executive committees, instructors, first aid students, doctors, nurses, staff aides, canteen women, and JiiW Red Cross. The organization next year will Be: county chairman, Earl Fuhrman, route 3; vice-chairman, Wilbur Petrie, Decatur; second vicechairman. Claren Nuenschwander, Berne: secretary, Miss Glennys Roop, Decatur; treasurer, Richard Macklin, Decatur. The executive committee is composed of the above and John Duff, of Geneva. The fund planning committee will be Leo Kirsch. Wilbur Petrie, Gail Grabill, Carl Braun, and Richard Macklin. The blood program will be directed by Mrs. Ed Bauer and Mrs. Joe Hunter, of Decatur, and the Rev. E.J. Nuenschwander, of Berne; Jack Rayer will head the disaster committee. Gerald Durkin is chairman and Mrs. Roger Singleton co-chairman of the first aid and water safety committee. The Rev. B.G. Thomas will head the home service committee, and Mrs. Earl Fuhrman will assist him. - Other chairmen are, home nursing, Mrs. Harold Hoffman, chairman, and Mrs. Arthur Miller, cochairman; Mrs. Roscoe Glendenning, chairman of volunteers; Junior Red Cross, Miss Glennys Roop, chairman, and Mrs. Mildred Foley, co-chairman; executive secretary, Mrs. Wanda Oelberg. The board of directors, with terms expiring July 1, 1958, are Earl Fuhrman. Decatur: Mrs. Hazel Banta, Geneva; Mrs. Harold Mattox, Geneva; Mrs. Margaret Freeby, Decatur; Holman Egley, route 2. Berne; the Rev. B.G. Thomas. Decatur; Simon Schwartz. Berne: the Rev. E.J. Nuenschwander. Berne; and Gerald Durkin, Decatur. Directors whose terms expire July 1. 1959 are: Mrs. Mildred Foley, route 2; Miss Bernice Nelson, Decatur: Miss Glennys Roop, Decatur; Wilbur Petrie. Decatur; E. M. Webb, Berne; L.L. Smith, route 4; John Duff, Geneva; Mrs. Ed Bauer, Decatur; and Leo Kirsch, route 1. Those whose terms expire July t) 1960 are Lewellyn Lehman, route 1, Berne; Mrs. William Noll, Pleasant Mills; Miss Marie Felber, Decatur; Richard Macklin, Decatur; Ray Eichenauer, route 3; Art Burris, Decatur; Delmore Wechter, route 6; Gail Grabill, Decatur; Carl Braun, Decatur: Claren Nuenschwander, Berne; and Ray Leitz, Decatur. There were 103 cases of home service reports last year. Rev. Thomas reported, of which 61 were servicemen, 21, veterans, and 21, civilians. These cases were verification of leaves, or leave extensions; reports for the military and veterans administration; assistance in obtaining compensation, penThere were an additional 58 cases sions. and allotments; counseling in personal and family problems, of limited service. Twenty-eight (Continued oa Page Two)

Hundreds Dead Or Missing In Japan Floods Kyushu Island Is Swept By Deluge Os 27-lnch Rain TOKYO (UP)—A deluge of 27 inches of rain in less than 24 hours hit Kyushu Island with catastrophic force today, causing floods and landslides- The known dead and missing were in the hundreds. Official police figures said there were 272 persons confirmed dead and 307 missing. The figures were expected to rise when communications are restored. Japanese press reports from the scene said the death toll may run . as high as 3,000. Police listed 47,998 persons belonging to 9,682 families as "affected" by the floods ■— their homes washed away or wrecked. Police reported 1,031 houses damaged, 256 washed away and 29,117 flooded. The worst hit were the cities of Isahaya, with a population of 60.000, and Omura, a city of half that size, on Omura Bay on the . west coast of Kyushu and some 1 10 miles from atom-bombed Na- ; gasaki. Kyushu is Japan's south--1 ernmost main island. The Mainichi newspaper corre- ■ spondent at Nagasaki called Isha- ■ ya a "city of the dead” and said t police estimated 2,000 to 3,000 I killed there. The newspaper Yomiuri said 3,000 were drowned in the . two cities. ■ The Kyodo News Service re- . ported from Ishaya today that “large numbers of persons - ' were ’ still clinging to rooftops clamor--1 ing for help and that Japanese • ground troops sent on rescue mis- ‘ sions could only look on helplessly ! across .the swirling waters. Dozens of landslides were re- . ported in the mountainous area , around Nagasaki and the US. , Navy said 100 persons were miss--1 ing in a landslide between Nagasaki and Sasebo- and that 1,500 1 persons were “cut off.” A land- . slide in Tensui buried 50 more . persons and these too were feared . dead. U.S. military installations ap- ’ parently were in no danger. Rules Received For County Plow Match County Contest Is Scheduled Aug. 8 Rules for the 1957 county plow- , ing match, to be held on the Delmas Bollenbacher farm August 8, were received today by Cletus Gillman, U. S. soil conser--1 vationist working with the local soil conservation district. Any farmer, farm worker, or farm woman, 16 years of age or 1 older, who resides in Adams county, is eligible to enter. Equipment may be farmer own- • er. or may be sponsored by an • equipment dealer. Due to the • shortage of space this year, only • two units of each make will be allowed. If two units of each make do not enter, others will be allowed, up to a total of 16. The plow used shall be, within [ practical, reasonable limits, of a , size to correspond with the horse- . power of the tractor used. A 214 inch bottom plow may be used with a tractor rated under 36 drawbar power, and a 28-inch minimum width of cut. A 3-14 inch bottom plow may be used with a 36 drawbar horsepower and over tractor, with a minimum of 42 inches width of cut. Furrow depth will be limited to from six to eight inches. One-half acre areas will be drawn by lot. and must be plowed within time limits as follows: in the contour match, 2-14 inch bottoms, 74 minutes; 2-16 inch bottoms, 66 minutes; 3-14 inch bottoms, 50 minutes; 3-16 inch bottoms, 44 minutes; 4-14 inch bottoms, 37 minutes. > Copies of the rules have been, distributed to the county implement dealers, and one copy is available in the county SCS office. Points in the contour plowing match will be scored as follows: open furrow 13 points; furrow conformation and uniformity, 20 points; quality of tilled surface, 15 points; trash coverage, 10 points; grassed water ways, 10 points; land ends, 12 points; contour adherence and closing furrow, 20 points; total, 100 points. In the level land section of the match, guide stakes will be set out by the field committee before contest time. There shall be not less than four furrows between the opening furrow and the land boundary. ®. Time limits in the level land Caattaacd rase Eight

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Decatur, Indiana, Friday, July 26,1957

Eisenhower Expresses Great Disappointment On School Bill Defeat ry' ' -

I ■ , - ► i Probe Mystery Blast Aboard L West Airliner Missing Passenger Revealed Heavily Insured On Flight t GEORGE AIR FORCE BASE, • Calif. (UP) — Civil Aeronautics » Board officials and the FBI to- ' day took charge of an investiga- * tion into a mysterious explosion that ripped a large hole in the * side of an airliner, hurtling a ' heavily-insured passenger 10,000 1 feet to his death. > The CAB planned to make an ■ “inch by inch” search for powder ■ marks in the shattered rear section of the Western airliner. At * the same time searchers combed 1 the desolate desert area in an at- ) tempt to find the body of the ' missing passenger, S. F. Binstock, : 62, of Canoga Park. Calif. FBI agents also stepped into the 1 investigation to determine if the explosion might have been a sui- " cide plot The FBI disclosed that 1 Binstock, who boarded the plane • at Las Vegas, Nev., had taken out * $125,000 in flight insurance • Wednesday, naming Ms wife, Eva, > as beneficiary. - r The two-engine Convair made an ; emergency landing here following 1 the explosion high Over the California desert early Thursday. ■ Twelve other passengers and a crew 7>f three escaped injury. “I thought someone had run into me,” Western Airlines pilot Milton Shirk said. “I notified Los Angeles International Airport by radio that I was going to make an emergency landing at the Air Force base. We came in smoothly without any difficulty.” The explosion occurred at 10,000 feet and was centered in the lavatory of the airliner which had stopped at Las Vegas, Nev., 47 ’ minutes earlier on a flight from Minneapolis to Los Angeles. Bin- • stock boarded the plane In the predawn hours at Las Vegas and passengers said he entered the tiny I washroom shortly after takeoff. Stewardess Joan Hollinger narrowly escaped being blown out of the plane with Binstock. She was ; in the rear section making coffee for the passengers when -the air(CoHtlaaea oa Page Eight) State Distributes Alcohol Tax Fund Y .*■ Decatur Receives Check For $2,199 INDIANAPOLIS (UP) — The i State Auditor's office today began i distribution to Indiana cities and , towns of $814,824 in alcoholic beverage gallonage taxes collected for the second quarter of 1957. Total receipts for the quarter were $1,629,648, with the state sharing the money on an equal basis with the various communities. Distribution included: Alexandria $1,744; Auburn $1,778; Angola $1,536; Bloomington $8,517; Bluffton $1,838; Columbia City $1,435; Columbus $5,555; Decatur $2,199; Elkhart $11,689; Elwood $3,436; Fort Wayne $43,815; Gary $51,074; Goshen $3,932; Greencastle $2,513; Hammond $26,490; Hartford City $2,193; Huntington $4,560; Kendallville $1,851; Lagrange $572; LaPorte $6,174; Linton $1,806; Logansport $6,360; Monticello $1,049; Mount Vernon $1,860; Peru $4,458; Plymouth $2,218; Portland $2,136; Princeton $2,320; Shelbyville i $3,862; Terre Haute $19,420; Wabash $3,530; Warsaw $2,106; West i Terre Haute 81,01*. I 1 r 11 r INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy tonight and Saturday with slow warming trend. Low tonight in the 60s. High Saturday 80s north and central to near 90 south. Sunset 8:04 p. m„ sunrise Saturday 5:39 a. m. Outlook for Sunday: Mostly fair and a little warmer. Low temperatures Saturday night in the 60s. High Sunday in the upper 80s. . i .- * *- .. ~ . ..

Bond Ordinance Is Approved By Council To Issue Bonds For City Sewage Plant City council members met with Snayor Robert Cole and clerktreasurer Mirrlam Hall, in special session Thursday evening, in ||he council room ,of city hall. Purpose of the three-hour long session was to adopt a bond ordinance concerning the establishconstruction and operation of the proposed sewage treatment plant, and to present a sewer rate ordinance and a sewer use ordinance. The bond ordinance, as read and approved by the council, shows that the Indiana state pollution board issued Decatur a final order on July 22, 1955, to cease polluting the streams and watercourses in and about the city, and to provide sewage works which would be sufficient to correct or abate the pollution. As a result of the order, the city employed Consoer, Townsend & Associates, consulting engineers of Chicago, who prepared specifications and estimates for the necessary sewage works. These plans were later approved by all governmental authorities having jurisdiction in the matter, year, at which time plans were made to finance the cost of such works by issuing revenue bonds. These bonds will be issued in the denomination of SI,OOO, and will bear interest at the rate of 5%. Bonds will mature serially in numerical order from January 1, 1961, up to and including January 1, 1990. Advertisements will appear in this paper each week for two weeks prior to the sale of said bonds. Bids for the sale of the bonds will be opened at city hall, August 27. •- Yost Construction Co., of Decatur, was officially awarded the contract for construction of the interceptor sewer and sewage treatmea plant, garbage disposal Coatlnaeg un Page Eight Dr. Krider Speaks At Rotary Meeting Speaks On Trip To England And Europe Dr. Jake L. Krider, director of public relations of the Central Soya Co., was the guest speaker at the weekly meeting of the Decatur Rotary club at the Decatur Youth and Community Center Thursday night. He had just returned from a trip to England and the continent to observe European agriculture and its present methods. Tom AUweto was program chairman. Vicepresident Gail Grabill presided. Krider is a graduate of the University of Illinois. He received his doctorate from Cornell University. He came to Central Soya Co. in 1950 and had lived in Decatur for several years before moving to Fort Wayne. He has authored or co-authored over 100 technical and popular articles of animal nutrition and production. Krider reported the English people very friendly and cordial. He admired their highly mechanized farms, using small diesel equipment. He showed colored slides of the English and Scottish country-side, along with closeups of the various breeds of native sheep, cattle and hogs. English salaries for skilled labor are much less than in America and retired folks have a rather difficult time. "France is still confused and seems unwilling to give up’ its national pleasures to cure its obvious ills,” Krider opinioned. “Its government is unstable with hignxaxes and heavy import duties. Its farms still use mostt/ . manual labor. "The Swiss are an extremely ' energetic people; but they also ■ know how to enjoy life. Their k - (Continued •» Paca Eight)

Ike Renews Opposition To Trial By Jury Voices Opposition To Jury Trials In Civil Rights Bill WASHINGTON (UP)—President Eisenhower today renewed his opposition to providing jury trials in the civil rights bill. The lines thus were drawn sharper for the main event in* the great civil rights debate. ■ ■ ■ ■'■■■- - Administration and southern leaders in the Senate promised a battle to the finish over an amendment to pull some teeth from the bill’s right-to-vote section by guaranteeing juryxtrial in certain votedenial cases. There were new threats of a southern filibuster against the bill if the jury trial amendment is defeated. Both sides predicted a narrow victory when the amendment, introduced as a compromise by western Democrat Joseph C. O’Mahoney of Wyoming, comes up for a vote next Tuesday or WednesdayEisenhower appealed to Republicans today through GOP Leader William F. Knowland to unite against the jury trial amendment. Knowland said the President still hopes to get an “effective” bill. It will not be effective, Knowland said, if the proposed federal injunctive powers in voting cases are watered down. Sen. George D. Aiken (R-Vt.), who led a Republican revolt which kiUed Part 111 of the bill by a 52-38 margin Wednesday, told newsmen he would vote against jury trial in voting cases. The administration bill, already ; passed by the House, would authorize the government to seek injunctions against conspiracies to deprive persons of the right to vote. Violators would be subject to contempt of court penalties without trial by jury. O’Mahoney’s amendment would provide jury trials in all cases involving criminal contempt but not in cases of civil contempt. Eighteen Republicans voted Wednesday with 34 Democrats to kill—by a 52-38 margin—a provision to authorize use of injunctions to protect civil rights generallyBusiness Increase For G. E. Foreseen Plants Close Today In Annual Vacation Prospects for increased business at Decatur plants of General Electric are bright when vacations are over, according to Lisle Hodell, general manager of the general purpose motor de- , partment. Manager Hodell, in a letter to each employe prior to the start of the shutdown of plants today for the annual vacation, said that a slowdown in new home construction, general bad weather conditions through most of the nation, higher interest rates and a dwindling of inventories in many retail outlets were the chief causes for a slackening in , General Electric business. Hodell added that he believed , conditions in general would be t greatly improved in the next few , weeks and said that already an j increase in orders was noted. j In closing the letter, the general manager wished each em- ] ploye a “happy and restful” va- j cation. i From the tone of the letter Decatur retailers felt that general local business, governed consid- j erably by the size of the weekly (ContlnuMO uu t*«.ire * Mother Os Four Is , Stricken By Polio i I MICHIGAN CITY (UP) — Mrs. Barbara June Glick, 29, Michigan ] City, mother of four children, was ] stricken with paralytic polio this < week. None of her family had received any Salk vaccine. i

63 Persons Killed As Building Falls Fear Death Toll To Increase In Cairo CAIRO (UP)-A rickety two-story building collapsed on 200 wedding guests clapping and stamping out a beat for a belly dancer today killing scores of men, women and children. Police said 83 bodies had been recovered from the wreckage and the death toll may go higher. At least 34 of the known dead were children between the ages of 1 and 14. One police official said “as many as 77 may have been killed” when the walls of the house came crashing down. Another 15 persons were reported in serious condition at hospitals. The bride, Fatma El Slimy, 19, stood by holding the hand of her husband, Mansour Abdel Hamid, when disaster struck shortly before 12. The merriment had reached its peak with the native music and belly dancing. The guests, including children, clapped and stamped in joy. The bride, wearing her white wedding dress, was found in the debris. The bridegroom escaped with injuries. Police emphasized that casualty figures were not complete. Fire and police brigades were still hauling dead and injured from the rubble early today ana police said they feared additional victims were still in the ruinsThe building, situated off an alley in the Darb El Ahmar quarter near Saladin’s Citadel, collapsed shortly before midnight while the bride and bridegroom were gaily celebrating their marriage. The walls buckled without warning. the top floor caved in and the house collapsed as if it were made of cards. Police said more than 40 bodies had been recovered and that 45 persons were known to have been admitted to hospitals. # Demands Cigarette Makers Back Claims Scores Reluctance Os Manufacturers WASHINGTON (UP) — Bep. John A. Blatnik (D-Minn.4 today demanded the Federal Trade Commission force the cigarette industry to “back up" the claims of filter tip cigarette advertising. Blatnik, chairman of the House subcommittee cigarette filtercancer investigation, said his subcommittee would call on the FTC to summon industry representatives for questioning. He said the cigarette industry has failed to accept invitations to send representatives before his subcommittee and called the industry’s “reluctance to come ... and back up their filters’ puzzlingHowever, he said that at FTC hearings the industry would be forced to “back up their claims” for filters. Blatnik said Thursday his subcommittee has evidence that “ineffective filters” are being used which allow “as much or more nicotine and tar than ever,” to reach smokers. Acting FTC Chairman Robert T, Secrest told the subcommittee this morning the commission will have to adopt a “fresh approach” in regulating cigarette advertising as a result of the Public Health Service statement that heavy smoking is a causitive factor of lung cancer. “To this end, the commission has directed and given high priority to a consumer survey that would reveal the public’s current (Continue) on Pace IDirbt) Four Asiatic Flu Cases In Indiana INDIANAPOLIS (UP) — Four cases of Asiatic flu have been reported in Indiana in two nearly adjacent northwest counties. The Indiana State Board of Health said three cases were reported in Lake and one in Pulaski Counties. The flu is a new strain reported recently in the Far East.

Bill's Defeat Blamed On Ike By Democrats j Some Republicans i Also Blame Ike In Defeat Os Measure 1 WASHINGTON (UP)—President , Eisenhower voiced “great disappointment" today over the defeat of the $1,500,000,000 school con- , struction bill—a defeat which Democrats and some Republicans blamed on him. Mrs. Anne Wheaton, associate ; White House press secretary, told ’ reporters the President at a White House breakfast conference with ; Senate GOP Leader William F. Knowland “expressed great dis- ’ appointment that the House did not ■ see its way to pass an appropriate , measure to meet the critical short- ' age of schools." I She said she did not know whether Eisenhower has communicated > his views to the entire Republican > congressional leadership. i The House killed the bill by a narrow 208-203 vote Thursday after • an anti-segregation amendment was tacked-to it. , Northern, and western Democrats ; blamed Eisenltower’s cool attitude , toward it for the negative -votes of : a crucial handful of Republicans ' who might have been expected to back an Eisenhower-supported ; measure. I No Senate Action Seen . Republicans also expressed qualified criticism of the President’s inaction in drumming up support for the measure. Even in advance of House tioh there was no expectation the Senate would get around to the school bill this year, largely because of the long civil rights debate. Therefore, any final congressional showdown on school construction was not expected be- __ tore next year in any case. On a party basis 111 Republicans voted to kill the bill and ts to keep it alive. Among Democrats 128 voted to keep it alive - and 97 to kill it “I lay defeat of the bill squarely at the feet of the President," said Rep. Augustine B. Kelley (D-Pa.h chief sponsor of the compromise plan to have the federal government spend 300 million dollars a year for the next five years on classroom construction. ‘"Die general ordered the retreat,” said Rep. Edith Green (DOre.). The House before killing the measure added an amendment by Rep. Stuyvesant Wainwright (RN.Y.) to refuse any of the funds to school districts with segregated schools. The vote was 138 to 109Ciuse of Defeat Rep. Cleveland M. Bailey (DW. Va.), another leading supporter of the measure, said Eisenhower could have saved the bin by tile* phoning a dozen Republican members. “He didn’t do anything as far as I can determine,” Bailey said, - “although as late as Wednesday I was promised a letter or statement.” Rep. Samuel K. McConneU Jr. (R-Pa.), chief Republican backer of the biU and an Eisenhower spokesman on education matters, blamed the defeat on “hard-rock opposition” by some House members to aU federal aid programs, the economy wave and the “lingering’ argument” left over the bin’s fund distribution formula This dispute remained to the end because of Eisenhower’s reluctance to fully support the compromise bill. I I——— • Wage Increase Far U.S. Rubber Workers CINCINNATI, Ohio (UP)—A 15-cent-an-hour increase to some 2.600 Uuited Rubber Workers went into effect at 18 United States Rebber Co. plants today. The settlement came Thursday night after nearly three weeks of wage talks. The increase brought the pay of workers up to those in other rubber firms, or about -2.54% an hour. %

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