Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 185, Decatur, Adams County, 7 August 1957 — Page 1

Vol. LV. No. 185

YAWL THE WAY FROM BREMEN K ~ -r— J: I ■L' W; rL/' ' 1* b, •* • - bw' 1 * JMr . 4Wp>Rk t . ■ ' '*'-- / :afit a? V # A Ot? W •*. ■ f I? / K ' ** I '■' W '• T H K s&.' * SBw ■***"* •* x s • >\, 1 FOUR CHICAGOANS who yawled all the way from Bremen, Germany, to the Windy City wave to friends at end of their 8,000-mile ocean-river-Great Lakes Odyssey. From left: Robert Wolfarth, Dr. Alfred Wolfarth (father), wife Caroline and Robert Jorbin. Jorbin left the 43-foot yawl at New York and hurried on by himself, for business reasons.

IBCent Boost Jn Civil City Rate Proposed Proposed Tax Rate Fixed Tuesday Night By City Councilman The proposed tax rate for the city of Decatur, exclusive of the school city, was set Tuesday night by the council in regular session at $1.46, compared with $1.28 last year. This is an 18-cent increase on each SIOO worth of taxable property and includes 5 percent salary increases for members of the fire and police departments, a statutory increase for the clerk-treas-urer and a two-cent rise in the park and recreation departments. The Youth and Community Center operating cost is taken from the recreation department and it was necessary to boost that’ fund a total of four cents to 11 cents. The total amount to be raised next year is $161,073.01 compared with $149,251.11 raised this year. Under miscellaneous items, it was necessary to place the sum of $6,157.40 for sewer connection charges made by the last administration against the civil .city. They will be collected to replenish the revolving sewer fund .’. The fire and police chief, respectively, will receive salary increases along with all members of their staffs. The entire proposed budget will appears in legal form today, specifying each proposed expenditure. The amount by departments is as follows: Mayor's office, $3,355; city judge’s office, $1,875; clerk-treas-urer. $6,343; department of law, $2,397.50; police department, $52,344; fire department, $32,371. Three-Cent Drop In Root Township Levy The Root township trustee, Omer Merriman, and the township advisory board will meet August 27 to consider a budget of $71,678, which will allow a three-cent tax decrease. The new rate will be $2.08, including seven cents for the township fund, the same as last year; 75 cents for the special school fund, down 33 cents; 76 cents for the tuition fund, down seven cents; 30 cents for the new cumulative building fund; and the same 10 cents each for school and civil bond retirement. Last year’s total was $2.11. The meeting August 27 is public, and any taxpayers may be heard on the budget. —— - ( Kirkland's Rate To Increase Two Cents The Kirkland township trustee, August Schlickman, and his advisory board will meet August 27 to consider the 1958 budget, including a two-cent increase in the township fund rate, from nine cents to 11 cents. The rate increase is necessary because the state legislature increased the trustee’s -salary this year. The amount to be raised by tax levy this year is $2,445.22, and the proposed 11-cent rate will raise $2,398.77. Poor relief will total $1,096. The meeting is public, and any taxpayer will have the right to be heard.

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City Councilmen In Regular Session No New Business Submitted Tuesday City council members met in regular session Tuesday evening in the council room of city hall, with Mayor Robert. Cole presiding. The reading of ordinances and petitions consumed the major part of the meeting, as no new business was introduced. The council will be in special session at T o'clock this evening, toconduct a public hearing concerning the rates and charges to be col- ( lected from property owners to| be served by the sewage treat-,' meat plant, which will be begun i September 1. | A contract between the city of j Decatur and. Robert and.. Gloria Bowen for a rural line extension was read and approved, and a petition signed by residents of the 900 block of Indiana street,, seeking curbing along that street, j was temporarily tabled. An ordinance was read and 1 passed concerning the release of • the Central Soya company of Decatur, from an easement signed; with the city in 1952. At that! time, Central Soya granted the city the right to construct a 30 foot by 7% foot sewer on their property, located north of North Second,- street,, through Central Soya park. The company is now desirous of erecting a building near the sewer, and has asked release fromOthe 1952 easement. City engineer Ralph E. Roop explained to the council members that he and his associates had studied the problem, and that the proposed building will in no way interfere with the sewer. After all three readings, the ordinance was passed. A report submitted by Roop was alio read by clerk-treasurer Miriam Hall, stating the plans, specifications and costs of the city well house number 14, which' is to be constructed just north of the water treatment plant, on the present Harry Dailey farm. Mrs. Hall was given notice to proceed with advertising of bids for the jontiau* »" •**»• Crowd Stores For Dollar Day Sales Retail Stores Are Jammed By Shoppers One of the biggest Dollar Day crowds in Decatur’s history visited the retail section of Decatur today during this city’s late summer bargain event. Stores were crowded early and there was no sign of a let-up in mid-afternoon. Business hours were extended today until £ o’clock tonight and indications were that many stores would establish new records. Retailers felt that they had picked the right date for their sales festival even though it conflicted with some Fort Wayne stores. Most of the local stores took part in the event, sponsored by the retail division of the Chamber of Commerce under the chairmanship of Harold Niblick, veteran local merchant. Other events scheduled for Decatur indude the fall opening and of course the Christmas opening. Even stores not members of the Chamber participated in today’s bargain offerings and most retailers were highly pleased with the turnout

Eisenhower Is Hopeful Russia To Accept Plan Expresses Hope Os Russian Agreement To Arms Inspection WASHINGTON (UP)—President Eisenhower said today that world disarmament would follow almost automatically from any East-West agreement to free the world from the fear of surprise attack. If progress is made on relieving the world of the fear of surprise attack, the President said this ,would be the greatest ray of hope on the dark world scene sincere has been in the White House.' Eisenhower told his news conference that he has the utmost hope that the Soviet Unicm will , agree to the latest American-Allied proposals for aerial and ground inspection zones. These proposals were put before Russia by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles at tiie London disarmament talks. Other major points in his news conference: —Hi said Secretary of Defense Charles E. Wilson had notified him sometime ago that he wanted . to quit before work started this , fall on a new budget. He said he expected to name Cincinnati soap j manufacturer Neil H. McElroy to , replace Wilson, if McElroy passes a thorough government investiga- • tion of his qualifications. , —The jury trial amendment to ( the civil rights bill as adopted by . the Senate would seriously hamper - the operations of the federal courts . system. He declined to say wheth- ( er he would veto the rights bill if it reaches him in the Senate < form. But Ke re-stated his opposi- , tion. to the amendment. —He has a successor in mind j to replace John Holister as head ( iof the International Cooperation ; j Administration, but Holister has ; promised to remain in his post at , jthe President’s convenience. , —He. dismissed as unconsequen;tial a comment by Rep. Cleveland H. Bailey (D-W.Va.) who last week described EisenhoWer -as a ; “lousy liar” in connection with de- j feat of the school construction bill, i, —He expressed great admiration {for the Republican senatorial can- ! didate -in Wisconsin, Walter Koh- 1 •ler. He said he had not been ap- 1 'proached to take an active part ! {in the Wisconsin campaign, but I rhe would like to go on record as 1 jone of Kohler’s great admirers ! ' and he would like to see Hohler 1 elccLcd. • —He defended his acceptance of j gifts, which was criticized by Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.). Eisenhow- 1 er said, that most gifts he had received since entering the White < House came from large, voluntary organizations and that he 1 had never accepted anything from ( 111 ihUfefl KM.K4* ' -1 c Four Vacancies In i School Faculties < County Schools To 1-1 Open On August 23 J Four teaching positions still re- ‘ main open in the Adams county t school system, according to an announcement made by Gail M. Grabill, county superintendent of schools. Two of the vacancies exist at Pleasant Mills, with both an industrial arts and science, and a social studies and math instructor needed. At Adams Central, there is a vacancy in the home econom- ( ics department, and at Geneva. 1 an elementary teacher is needed. The completed list of teachers ( for all Adams county schools will not be announced until these post- ( tions are filled, Grabill stated. Organization day for the county , shcools will be August 23. with { busses to run that morning. Prior < to opening day, all county teach- ( ers will attend the annual teach- j ers institute, August 22. with the j morning to be spent in sessions in ( the court room of the county court j house. A. L. Lindley, superintend- ( ent of schools in Fort Wayne, will ( be the guest speaker. , That afternoon will be spent in i orientating the teachers in their i own classrooms. County students will enjoy an i early one-day vacation September i 2, which is Labor day. Classes will i resume 'as regular the next morn- i ing. i INDIANA WEATHER ' Fair and a little warmer i tonight and Thursday. Low tonight 58-65. High Thursday in the mid and upper B'l. Sunset 7:51 p. m., sunrise Thursday 5:51 a. m. Outlook for Friday: Fair and warm- < er. Low Thursday mid and i upper 665. High Friday up- • per 80s and low 90s. 1

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Manufacturer Admits Firm Kept $23,600 In Deducted Union Dues

11th Nuclear Device Fired This Morning Device Is Exploded As Pacifist Group Holds Prayer Vigil ATOMIC TEST SITE. Nev. (UP) —The Atomic Energy Commission unswervingly fired the 11th in its summer series of nuclear devices today while pacifists conducted a prayer vigil 30 miles away. The device Was triggered at 7:25 a.m, c.d.t. from its suspension equipment hanging from a 67-foot diameter balloon at a height of approximately 1,500 feet above Yucca Flat. Its yield was estimated as nominal, probably equal to 20,000 tons of TNT. Troops from Ft. Lewis, Wash., scheduled to take part in maneuvers later in the series, sat at the observation point some 10 miles from ground zero in full battle dress. Also at the view point were 30 Canadian soldiers from Calgary. Just before shot time the balloon holding the device was clearly visible in the dawn-breaking sky. The blast violently shook observers on News Nob and an unsky five miles from grouna zero burst into a blinding light as the shot was detonated. AEC spokesmen said the gas bag had been equipped with magnesium flares triggered to go off simultaneously with the blast for photographic effects taken in the test. However, the shock wave smashed the front end of the blimp and it shuddered to the ground where it poised like a missile with its nose buried in the desert floor. Smoke from the flares rose skyward from the wreckage. A smoke ring-shaped cloud drifted upward and fused together into the familiar shape of a mushroom. An area several miles in diameter on the ground was obscured ih\dust sucked up off tha Nevada desert floor after the blast, forming the stem of the mushroom. I The flash was plainly visible Vn Salt Lake City. Utah, and Lbs Angeles. Atom-watchers in San Francisco described it as "one of the biggest flashes seen here. . The stem of the mushroom separated from its cap and drifted westward while the salmon-tinged top portion appeared to climb straight upward. Aircraft assigned to the test darted through the sky, conducting radiation and cloudtracking experiments. Continued On Page Five

Strange Flying Objects Reported Over Indiana

Decatur joined with numerous other Indiana cities in reporting the observance of an unidentified object floating through the sky, early this morning. The local police received a radio alert from the Ligonier state police post, shortly after 1 a. m., stating that strange objects with colored lights had been sighted by state troopers in the Indianapolis area. They in turn received reports that police officers and unidentified witnesses had seen the object or objects, described to look like a flashing star, hovering over Anderson, Muncie, Hartford City, Pendleton, Portland, Greenwood, Decatur, Elwood, and Tipton and on into the northwestern Ohio area. Police officer Grover Odle was in the police car when the radio alert was received, and had just stopped at Gay’s Service station, at the corner of Monroe and Thirteenth street. Jerome "Budd” Reed, an employe of Gay’s just off duty, accompanied Odle northeast of Decatur. Reed was the first to sight the flickering object, at 1:18 a. <n. The two men stated this morning that the "thing” seemed to change colors, mostly red, green or blue, and white. -It moved slowly through the sky, at an estimated altitude of 5,000 feet, for 15 to 20 minutes before dis-

Khrushchev Begins East Germany Visit Premier Bulganin Remains In Russia BERLIN (UP) — Communist boss Nikita Khrushchev arrived bpre today to begin a seven-day visit that may result in the conclusion of a separate peace peraptuajing the division of conquered Germany. The Red leader was accompa--1 died by Deputy Premier Anastas i Mikoyan, Foreign Minister Andrei » Gromyko and Deputy Foreign > Trade Minister I. Kumykin. Premii er Nikolai Bulganin, who usually has accompanied Khrushchev on t such jaunts in the past, stayed i home. ’ t The Khrushchev party left Mos- ■ cow by jet airliner and trans- ’ ferred to a train somewhere on the ‘ outskirts of Red Berlin. The change from plane to train i pparently was made because it ' \.as easier to organize a welcom- ■ ing demonstration at the railroad ! station in central Berlin than it > would have been at one of the ! City’s outlying airports. The Red regime marshaled government employes and factory 1 workers by the thousand and ’ marched them to the station in formation to welcome the Russian ’visitors. Hundreds of Communist troops, L.security agents and police were 1 massed around the station. Khrushchev waved and beamed at the parading workers, then planted a kiss on the cheek of Deputy Premier Walter Ulbricht, the Stalinist leader of Red Germany. , Khrushchev Said he brought greetings of friendship to “the whole German people.” "We are fully in accord with the German Democratic Republic (East Germany),” he said. “UnContlnuea vb PbX« One-Cent Increase _ „ In Library Levy The Decatur library board will consider a budget of $18,843, which will require a tax rate of 17 cents, a one-cent increase over last year, at the annual budget meeting at the Decatur public library August 26. The library will require $9,260 for personal services, $1,472 for ■contractual services, $1,610 for ‘supplies; S2OO for material, $5,618 tor current charges, $4,200 for properties, totalling $22,360. Part of this money will come from souOs this money will come from sources other than the Decatur tax rate.

appearing from view. In a story released this morning through United Press news service, various versions of the object were given, but generally they remained the same in each of the places observed. One location stated that the object was moving up and down, giving bright lights with possible meteor showers around it; another city thought the mysterious object was a plane that landed at Bunker Hill shortly after 1:30 a. m. Several reports stated the object was a flickering star, and one said it was an airliner, but the majority did not attempt to identify or give the reason for the appearance of the strange object. , Police Radiac Jammed - INDIANAPOLIS (UP) — Dozens of Hoosiers in Central and Eastern Indiana kept police radios jammed with calls today about unidentified flying objects streaking and hovering in the skies in the early-morning hours. Reports indicated there were at least two objects - one traveling northeastward! oward Ohio from Anderson to Portland, the other northward from Greenwood to Ko- ' komo. . j The objects displayed gleaming colors ranging from red, blue and green to pale blue and pink, according to policemen and state (CBBtlßaed Pace Five)

Ike Restates Opposition To Amended Bill Civil Rights Jury Amendment Damage To Adj Judiciary WASHINGTON (UP)—President Eisenhower said today the jury trial amendment to the civil rights bill would be most damaging to the entire federal judiciary. The President restated his opposition to the amendment, adopted by the Senate, at his news conference. •He declined, however, to say whether he would veto the bill if it reached his desk in its present form. He repeated his statement of Aug. 2 that the measure as amended by the Senate would seriously hamper operations of the federal courts system. Meanwhile, Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson said he will seek agreement later today for a Senate vote on passage of the civil rights measure—tonight if possible. He predicted passage by a two-thirds margin. . Senate Republican Leader William F. Knowiand, looking ahead to a conference with the House on the measure, said that administration lawyers are drawing up a new compromise which they hope will be acceptable to the President and the two houses. Administration sources have said flatly Eisenhower would veto the bill in its present form. But GOP leaders have indicated he would accept as a minimum compromise a bill limiting the jury trial amendment to voting rights cases. Democratic leaders also have in-„ dicated a willingness to compromise on the jury trial amendment. But they appeared to-want first to see if they can get the House to accept the bill in its present form. The amendment would require jury trials in criminal contempt (Contlsaeß bb Pace Eight) 107 Pints Os Blood Given Here Tuesday Only 20 Pints 0# Scheduled Quota A total of 107 pints of blood were donated at the bloodmobile visit in Decatur Tuesday, 20 pints short of the quote, Mrs. Ed Bauer, chairman of the Red Cross blood program, said this morning. Because of summer vacations and the short scheduling cycle, the local Red Cross officials were very pleased with the turnout. Mrs. Arnold Ostermeyer joined the three gallon donor list yesterday. Jack Heller became a two gallon donor; one gallon donors are Cal F. Peterson, Eugene Kiess, Mrs. Howard Eley, Clarence Lengerich, Charles Jessup, and Weimer F. Harmon. Twenty-seven new donors were added to the list of supporters of the blood program. Because Adams county maintains this program, any person from this county, anywhere in the country, may obtain free blood, just paying transfusion costs, in case of accident, or necessity. Much of the blood is used at the Adams county memorial hospital. New donors include the Rev. J. O. Penrod, Jack Rosenberger, Virginia Rosenberger, Mrs. Simon Thieme. Mrs. Lloyd Daniels, Talmage Campbell, Margaret Campbell. Mrs. John Funk, Walter Buettner. Edgar Kiess. Nancy Majorki, Harold Sommers, Mary Harspring, Jane Heller, Roger Singleton, Betty Singleton, Kenneth Roop. Richard McMahon, Earl Stahl, Kenneth Watkins, Mrs. Paul Reimer, Raymond Graft, Robert Harvey, Raleigh Richards, Robert Sprague, David Embler, Jr., and Mrs. Julius Lengerich. -<• There were also 31 unscheduled walk-ins, which helped build up (Continued on Page Bight)

File Murder Charge On Banker,s Killer Klink Bound Over To LaGrange Jury LAGRANGE, Ind. (UP) —Robert D. Klink, 47. Atwood Lake, late Tuesday was charged before Justice of the Peace Sheldon Keasey with first degree murder in the fatal shooting of a Wolcottville branch bank manager who refufed to cash his check. Maurice Kent, 42, died in La Grange County Hospital here Monday evening, several hours after ' he was felled by three rifle shots as he talked on the telephone in the bank. Earlier, he had refused to cash a check Klink had made out to himself. Klink, a self-styled Inventor of "small things,” was bound over to the LaGrange County grand jury and was removed to the county jail until he goes on trial. Prosecutor Richard DeTar said Klink probably would not go to trial until Sept. 2 since the circuit court is on vacation. He will be given a mental test after the grand jury investigation, DeTar said. , Klink lived in a ramshackle cot- , tage at Atwood Lake and did odd jobs for nearby residents. Those who knew him said Klink never had <invented anything. Shortly after his arrest. Klink said he killed Kent because the banker was "a Communist.” He ; to was a “high priest," but grew vague when police sought to determine why he laid claim to that title. DeTar said he was "getting dizzy” trying to keep track of the various stories Klink tells. DeTar said the latest fiction dreamed up by Klink was that he formerly was a big union leader in Ohio until he was hit on the head during a strike. Authorities termed him a “known eccentric." McElroy Is Named To Succeed Wilson Actual Nomination Will Follow Probe WASHINGTON (UP)-President Eisenhower announced today that he plans to nominate soap manufacturer Neil H. McElroy to succeed Charles E. Wilson as secretary of defense. He said the actual nomination will not be made, however, until I the Cincinnati businessman passes an extensive but routine govern- ' ment investigation of his fitness < for the key Cabinet post. The President said Wilson noti- ' fled him some time ago that he : wanted to leave the Cabinet before ■' the Defense Department starts ] this fall to prepare next years budget Eisenhower called McElroy one of the most capable men in Amer- i tea. McElroy, 52-year-old president i of Procter and Gamble, conferred ' with the Chief Executive for 15 I minutes at the White House Tues- 1 day following a second conference I with Wilson at the Defense Department. 1 He went to an office adjoining ’ Wilson’s to study the scope of the 1 job before going to the White ’ House. McElroy originally was scheduled to leave Washington 1 Tuesday afternoon. The $285,000-a-year businessman ’ will be accepting a $25,000 job. i Continued On P*«e Five ] Washington Township Rate Cent Higher The Washington township trus- 1 tee and advisory board will con- < sider a budget of $4,940 for the j township fund, and $35,400 for the i poor relief fund in their annual 1 budget meeting August 27. This - meeting is open to the public, and any taxpayer has the right to be heard. • . 1 The township fund rate will increase one cent, according to the ’ proposed budget. The library rate will remain the same. Details of the budget appear in the legal adverisement of August 6 . and 13.

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Says Company Kept Dues On Talkow'sO.K. Deduction Approved By Dio Henchman; Practice Assailed WASHINGTON (UP) — An electric broiler maker admitted to the Senate Labor Rackets Committee today that his firm kept $23,600 in union dues that had been deducted from its employes’ pay because it was in “financial difficulties.” . Sen. John F. Kennedy (D-Mass.), denounced the practice as “disgraceful.’* He said the company kept the dues with the permission of Bernard Talkow, a henchman of New York labor racketeer Johnny Dio. Kennedy said the practice ought to be made a crime. The businessman, Irving Jacobson, executive vice president of Roto-Broil Corp, of America, New York, conceded that he and two partners each made about $30,000 a year at the time the company was holding back part of the union dues of its low-paid employes. Two other Dio lieutenants refused to answer the committee’s questions. The silent treatment the committee received from Dio’s associates, all officials of Dio-controlled locals of the AFL United Auto Workers in the New York area, moved Chairman John L. McClellan (D-Ark.) to declare that Congress must protect working people from “unscrupulous" labor leaders. McClellan said it will be necessary in some instances to “liberate them from the vise of evil whKCh now grips them. , Dio Testifies Thursday The committee wanted/to question, the two Dio associates called at its morning session about links between AFL Auto Workers Union locals dominated by Dio and “paper locals" in the Teamsters Union which were chartered at the request of Teamsters Vice President James R. Hoffa. In the course of the testimony: —Frank Easton, one tie between Dio and the “paper” locals, Refused to say whether he had been ordered to keep silent by Hoffa. • He invoked the Fifth Amendment 88 times. —Joseph George Snyder refused to identify a "Dear Friend John” letter sent to Dio to request an AFL-UAW charter and signed with Snyder’s name. Sen. Kennedy quickly charged that Snyder, now president of one of the Teamster locals, was “challenging" the ethical practices code of the AFL-CIO. The code calls for the removal of union officials who claim the protection of the Fifth Amendment. The senator said Snyder was “a test case of the good faith of the Teamsters." He said Snyder should quit or be removed. McClellan said the same statement might Well apply to Easton who was president of Dio’s Local 224 UAW-AFL and then was listed president and a trustee of Local 269 of the Teamsters. Counsel Robert F. Kennedy said the committee planned to call 10 witnesses, most of them union officials connected with Dio. That would clear the way for Dio’s scheduled appearance Thursday, he said. The witnesses, Kennedy said, would be individuals who played a role in the bastle for control of New York’s Joint Council of Teamsters late in 1955. The committee previously charged Hoffa obtained Teamster charters for a group of "paper” locals In New York merely to use their votes in that Teamster election. According to committee data, four of the largely memberless locals were staffed with officers from Dio-controlled locals of the AFL United Auto Workers Union. Gives Vivid Picture Paul Claude, a Brooklyn, N.Y. machine shop owner whoSsaid he feared for his children’s Lives even as he testified, gave the committee a vivid picture Tuesday of how one Dio henchman allegedly operated. Claude, a nervous man with a furrowed, balding brow, testified (.'•attaaed W rw