Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 177, Decatur, Adams County, 29 July 1957 — Page 2

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f — H.R.UM ■■■ .Wh —k Sizes Up Free World's — Defenses For Eurone

EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the Hot ®f a series of articles by the United Press military affairs writer, who has spent the past month in Europe, the Mediterranean and North Africa sista* up the free world's Western defenses. By CHARLES CORDDRY United Press Staff Correspondent PARIS (UP* — "Tfcere ain’t gonna be no war.” That was the way British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan put it two years ago. when he was foreign secretary. It still looks like a good prediction to many experts. Touring Western defense areas in Europe and the Mediterranean and talking with officials, military men and plain people, you find the odds are on continued Communist trouble-making by all methods short of armed hostilities. There are too many uncertainties. of course, for military leaders to put themselves on record with any flat forecast that war will be averted. There always is a chance, with giant forces facing each other, that an accidental

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spark could touch off a conflagration. There i& the possibility of East German uprisings with West Germans trying to help and North Atlantic Treaty Organization . forces becoming involved. There is what Allied headquarters here calls a new “threat” in the appearance of Russian ships and , submarines ia the Mediterranean Gaps Still Present There still are gaps in NATO deterrent power, holes in the ground force shield on the Central , European front. But in 6.600 miles of travel in nine countries, from London to Istanbul and from America’s big base in Libya to the barbed wire at the Czech border, this reporter ( found no official or military leader who thought Russia would deliberately start a war now. : The overriding reason is sim- i pie. An attack on NATO—on the < 4,000-mile line from Norway to i Turkey and-or on North America < —could mean the death of the j Soviet Union at the hands of air retaliatory forces with nuclear < power beyond measure. 1 The Russians know that. There 11 is no profit, just suicide, for them 1

in a global war and hb assurance that a little war would stay little. Gen. Lauris Norstad, supreme Allied commander in Europe, says the West’s retaliatory power is “absolute” and can be kept that way regardless of the site Os Russian military formations. He says the free world now has so many air bases that it is y practical “impossibility” for Russia to destroy them all simultaneously. "Regardless of what destruction they can do i»s,” he told the U.S. Congress last month, “they also are going to be destroyed” if they start a warCan Destroy .-.nything Norstad tells questioners at his headquarters here that the advent of long - range ballistic missiles will not change present deterrent concepts. The West will be in the “same relative position" as now —able to hit “where and when we choose" and “destroy anything of real military significance" in Russia. The attitude in NATO military ranks is one of confidence and restrained optimism — with heavy emphasis on the need to keep on strengthening the defense machine until there can be a foolproof disarmament agreement. “If we continue to follow the course we are now following,” Norstad says, “war in the next few years is most unlikely. I believe that time is playing on our

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t aide and that there is a very :. godd chance, and the chance will e continue to get better, that we i, will maintain peace and avoid r war.” t NATO strategy-' ’the course we f are now following” — is intended c first and foremost to prevent war. a That is the purpose of every mlli- > tary man involved, from the ara mored cavalryman riding border patrol at the Iron Curtain to the - 852 hydrogen bomber commander b on a U.S. air base. All are visible / signa to the Reds to keep their ’ heads down. NATO resolved in 1954 to base its defense on nuclear weapons and cut its previously unattainas ble "conventional” force goals t from 90 divisions for the central i front to 30 and from 9,000 aircraft I to about 6,000. Strategy for deter- > ring war is built around a double r defense in Europe — ground and i air- It calls for: USSAC U Key Unit 1. A "sword" of retaliatory air r forces able to strike all elements I of Russian power an short notice. ' Key unit is the U.S. Strategic Air i Command which can hit the So- • victs from any point on the com- ■ pass. Other units are Britain’s rapier-like bomber command and : the ever-growing atomic power ’ within Norstad’s command itself. I The U.S. Air Force in Europe, for ■ example, probably have well over ■ 400 aircraft able to carry atomic

’ weapons and the U.S. 6th Fleet I I in the Mediterranean now can | ; strike a modest number of atomI ic targets. ■ 2- A ♦ “shield” of conventional > ground, air and sea elements 1 I pressed close to the Iron Curtain—- . representing as many NATO na- • tons as possible and serving as • constantly visible evidence of free- ’ world deterrnination to resist ag- : gression. These forces, too, are to ■ have limited atomic capability in 1 : the form of tactical missiles, ar- J ’ tlllery shells and small bombs. ' U.S. units already are so 1 I equipped. i The need for the ground force 1 • elements of the shield has bei come the subject of a big contro- t > versy in Europe and England, in i view of the immense deterrent t ■ power of the retaliatory air , > forces. ( I Norstad, first air general to j head Atlantic pact forces, has t found his toughest problem is ex- . plaining the need for the Army . forces and he has become one of 1 their most ardent supporters ' since he succeeded U.S, Army ’ Gen. Alfred M. Gruenther last * ■ November. (Next: The ground fotcc shield 1 ■ in Europe) ? Clelland D. Snyder J Dies Last Evening 1 Clelland D. (Clee) Snyder, 46, I manager of a Fort Wayne phar- ' macy for 10 years, and before c that a resident of New Haven, 1 died at 6:50 p. m. Sunday in the ( Parkview memorial hospital in ’ Fort Wayne, where he had been ill a month. Mr. Snyder is a < Cousin of several Decatur resi- c dents, and has other relatives 1 living here. , The body is at the Harper & * Son funeral home, New Haven, 1 where friends may call after 7 1 p. m. today. Services will be I conducted at 1:30 p. m. Wednes- '■ day at the funeral home, and at ' 2 p. m. in the New Haven Metho- < dist church, the Rev. John M. ' Sayre officiating. Burial will be < in the IOOF cemetery, New ' Haven. ’ I Boy Seeks Library Help On Moonshine Federal agents recently had r the unsolicited help of city librar- , inn Miss Bertha Heller in nipping < in the bud a serious federal j offense. Miss Heller noticed a youijg boy, in the fifth or sixth grade, < going through books in the li- ! brary’s reference room. The I little fellow was unable to handle t some of the large books. 1 Miss Heller offered to help the t lad, and told him that the junior c reference books were outside in the junior department. "But what I’m looking for isn’t in those , v books,” the boy replied, “I want 1 to find out how to make moon- “ shine.” The youth and several e i friends who were waiting outside £ the reference room were then c escorted from the library. s • P Portland Man Fined c On Two Charges Here Fines of $1 and costs, and $5 I and costs, were paid this morning I by Richard D. Joy, 27, of Portland? who appeared in mayor’s court at 9:30 o’clock. j Joy was arrested July 15, for , disregarding a stop sign at the j corner of Second and Washing- . ton streets. He appeared in J.P. - Cburt that morning, but was un- j able to produce his driver’s li- ( cCnsc. He was charged with hav- j ing ho operator’s license, afid ; his case was continued. , Today, it was learned that his j license had expired in November, of 1956. He was fined 11 and , Costs for running the stop sign,

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Indiana Banks Lead In Loans To Farmers Figures Revealed * By Local Banker Again in 1956. Indiana farmers borrowed more from local banks than from other lending agencies, T. F. Graliker, president of the First State Bank, of Decatur said today. Graliker represents the Indiana bankers association as Adams county agricultural key banker. Graliker, using figures from the 16th annual farm lending summary of the agricultural commission of the American bankers association, pointed out that on January 1. 1957. Indi*** banks had a total of 1160,778,000 ih loans to farmers, compared with $159,303,00 a year ago. On the same date, $116,812,000 was held in Indiana farm loans by insurance companies, the second largest lender to the state’s farmer’s; $49,230,000 was held by .Federal Land banks; $33,242,000 by Production Credit associations; and $15,318,000 by the Farmers Home Administration. The total of farm credit in banks was made up of $98.828JK»0 in production loans and $61.9W,000 in farm mortgages. Ho° Bl s r banks also held $22,458,000 in C.C.C. paper not included in tne commented especially on the greater use of bank real estate credit, which increased 4 percent during the year, in relation to production loans. “The increase in farm capital requirements to the present very high levels,” he said, “has treated a crowing need for loans with longer repayment periods, particularly intermediate-term loans longer than one year. At the same time, there is a high borrowing capacity in farm real estate on which farmers could draw for non-real estate purposes. “The shift to comparatively greater use of real estate credit for capital improvements and production purposes is indicated bv estimates that over one-half of all farm real estate loqns are now used for production and operating expenses, new machinery improvement of livestock herds, and the like. “A further reflection of bank efforts to meet increased needs for intermediate-length loans is the substantial portion of production credit outstanding at the beginning at 1957 which carried a repayment period of longer than one year.” Graliker reported that all but eight of Indiana’s 463 insured banks served agriculture by making farm loans during 1956. He added that “these investments made through use of longer term bunk loans have contributed substantially to the efficiency and progres of Indiana and $5 and costs on the second charge. Rev. F. W. Bublitz Is Taken By Death The Rev. Frederick W. Bublitz, 73. former pastor of the St. John Lutheran church in New Haven. Mich., died Friday night at Fair Haven, Mich., following a short illness. Survivors include his widow, Mary; a son, four daughters, two stepsons; a sister, Mrs. Bertha Mailand of Decatur, and two brothers. William of Fort Wayne, and John of Romeo, Mich. Services will be held at 2 p. m. Wednesday at New Haven. Mich.

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