Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 196, Decatur, Adams County, 20 August 1957 — Page 1

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■ »mh>w» ——nw | II "■ll""■Of* *—■»**■—■—»** FREED REP PRISONER HOME TOUCHING AMERICAN soil for the first time in 10 years, the Rev. John A. Houle, S. J., arrives in San .Francisco with bis mother, Mrs. John H. Houle (left). At the right is his sister, Mrs. Ruth Henegar. Father Houle, 43, of Glendale, Calif., went to China in 1947 to do missionary work, and was imprisoned by the Reds on charges of “imperialism” and “ideological sabotage.” He was reunited with his mother in Honolulu after being released by the Chinese Reds. •

Doctor Soars To Record In Balloon Test Air Force Doctor is Making Extra Tests 4 On Record Flight MINNEAPOLIS (UP) — An Air Force balloonist investigating the fringes of outer space remained aloft today when a fresh wind shift gave his flight new life. Maj. David G. Simons. 35, an Air Force doctor, had soared to record heights on a scheduled 24hour flight in the stratosphere. Early today officials ordered him to begin descending ahead of schedule because a large bank of cumulus clouds appeared to be shaping up to the west of his planned landing area. However, a wind shift lofted the balloon northeastward about 50 miles from the Sisseton, S.D., area to Breckenridge, Minn. Simons' orders then were changed. “Because of the opportunity to complete extra tests and experiments,” a spokesman said, “Major Simons has been allowed to remain up.” Officials were uncertain as to just when Simons would begin his descent. “There is still a weather factor involved,” he said.” . Simons had begun his descent when the wind shifted. * Took Few Catnaps Simons had spent a busy night, according to reports from him as related by Col. John W. McCurdy of the Air Force. The pilot took a few catnaps only, totaling an hour. He was awake before sunrise, and thrilled to see the vast eastern sky with its brilliant morning colors. Because he was so high, McCurdy said, Simons saw the sunrise an hour before it opened to watchers on the ground. Simons, who hit a record altitude of more than 100,000 feet, or about 19 miles, shortly after he took off at mid-morning Monday, probably was prevented from trying to better that mark this morning. Turbulence from a severe thunderstorm below Simons’ balloon dragged him down to 68,000 feet after dawn. "It was really spectacular to see lightning from above,” Simons radioed ground observers in describing the storm. He said he was about 30,000 feet over the storm at the time. The balloon was launched from the 450-foot deep pit to prevent surface winds from damaging it during takeoff. An Air Force spokesman said Simons is “real excited about the flight and very fascinated with everything he's seeing.” During the night, Simons made extensive readings on the aurora borealis (northern lights), star sightings, and a sighting on the moon. . .. x M . The doctor’s vision at that altitude is not hampered by haze and smoke which restricts vision closer to the ground. The spokesman said they have been trying to get more descriptive reports from Simons since his ascent, but he has been too busy with his stratospheric activities to give much more than terse scientific reports. At sunset, however, Simons was so impressed with the beauty surrounding him that he became more expansive and radioed that the sky was “a dark, black, a color I have not seen before and can’t really describe. Sunset Conies Late "North of me, the color has an even more violent purple tinge, the Air Force scientist reported. Sunset came hours later for Simons than it did at ground level because the sun’s rays were visiContlnned «n Page Five

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County Schools To Open Next Friday Annual Institute Thursday Morning A meeting of the principals of till county schools and a one-day teachers institute will precede ganization day for students, which is planned for Friday morning. Principals of the county schools, which are Adams Central. Monmouth, Pleasant Mills, Geneva, Bobo, Jefferson township, Hartford township, and the two Blue Creek schools, will meet in the office of county superintendent Gail M. Grabill, at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday. Thursday morning at 9:30, all teachers employed by the county school system will meet in the court room of the county court house. This year’s institute will be opened with invocation, led by the Rev. Gordon Neuenschwander, of the First Mennonite church of Berne. A. T. Lindley, superintendent of the Fort Wayne community schools, will be the guest speaker for the event. Very active in numerous profesional organizations, Lindley is a graduate of Earlham college. He later received his master's degree from Butler University and has done graduate work at Columbia University, Northwestern University, Chicago University, Purdue University and Indiana University. Institute will adjourn before noon, and teacher? will report to their respective schools for further teachers meetings and orientation programs. Students organization day is slated for Friday morning, with buses slated to run at their regular time. During the short morning period, books and keys, etc, will be distributed, with possible student meetings to follow. There will be no classes. Grabill announced that for the first time this year, all elementary textbooks will be available on the rental basis. Actual classroom sessions will begin at the regular time next Monday morning. The first of five school time vacations will be the following Monday, when classes will be suspended Labor day. Students will have a two day vacation during teachers’ instuitute, planned this year for October 24 and 25, with the Thanksgiving vacation to take place November 28 and 29. Christmas vacation for the students and teachers will begin December 20, and will extend until January 2, when classes will again resume. Final vacation of the year will come April 4, just prior to Easter. Several special events are planned throughout the year, including the annual music festival, which this year will be held October 22, at Adams Central. The county basketball tournament will be held January 16, 17 and 18. May 2 is the final school for the Hartford and Jefferson township schools, the Blue Creek schools, Pleasant Mills and Bobo. Adams Central, Monmouth and Geneva will be in session until May 16. INDIANA WEATHER Fair, little change in temperature tonight. Wednesday partly cloudy, turning cooler extreme north, mostly fair and pleasant central and south. Low tonight 58-64. High Wednesday 78-85. Sunset 7:35 p.m., sunrise Wednesday 6:92 a.m. Outlook for Thursday: Partly cloudy and cooler north and central. Cloudy and mild with showers or thundershowers extreme south. Low Wednesday night 6ML High Thursday 8696.

Hoffa Reveals Wife Shared In Firm's Profits Teamster Official Gives Testimony To . Senate Committee WASHINGTON (UP)-Teamsters Vice President James R. Hoffa testified today that his wife shared a seven-year profit of 8125,000 as coowner of a company which leased trucks to a firm with labor troubles. Hoffa, prospective president of the Teamsters Union, said his wife and the wife of Bert Brennan, one of his union associates, owned the company’s stock in their maiden names. Hoffa explained these names were used, on the advice of an attorney, so that the property of the two women could not be attached in any court action growing out of a labor-management dispute in which he was involved. The stocky, cocky, heir apparent to Dave Beck as head of the nation’s largest union, told the Senate Rackets Committee "I did not set up, nor did I run, nor have the stock of Test Fleet”—the company owned by Mrs. Hoffa and Mrs. Brennan. But he said, under questioning by Sen. John F. Kennedy (IlMass.), that he and his wife pooled their income for income tax purposes and filed a joint return. Disagrees With Edict And although he said he did not share in Test Fleet’s ownership, Hoffa testified that "as rapidly as possible” he is liquidating “that concern and my other business interests” in accordance with an edict of the AFL-CIO Ethical Practices Committee. Sen. Kennedy said the policy established by the AFL-CIO Ethical Practices Committee was prompted by the issue of whether a labor leader should have an "intimate business relationship" with people “he is obliged to negotiate with over the collective bargaining table:” Hoffa had testified that the company which leased equipment from his wife’s firm was covered by a standard contract with the Teamsters Union. He made it clear that he disagrees with the AFL-CIO edict. Hoffa declared that if a union negotiator “knows the business” in which he is negotiating it puts him in "a better position to get more for your men.” He contended that his business "experience” has “saved” drivers in the Teamsters’ Central States Conference from “having any strikes” and has assured them wages which are the equal of any in the industry plus “better fringe benefits.” The committee will question Hoffa about testimony that he invited lUoiitinued on Pare Four? Provide Equipment For Plow Contests Dealers In Area To Provide Equipment Several Decatur area dealers have already agreed to provide equipment for the state plowing contest to be held Aug. 27 on the Ward and Jay Chapman farm four miles east of Decautr, the soil conservation district supervisors announced today. The state plowing contest will be sponsored jointly by the soil district and the Krick-Tyndall company. Decatur Equipment, 1nc.,.-will provide International Harvester equipment for the wagon train and waterway demonstration. Others who have already accepted the state plowing contest committee's request for equipment are Sprunger Implement Co., with John Deere equipment; Riehle Tractor & Implement Co., with Ford equipment; Dierkes Implement Sales, with the Ferguson System and the Morrison Farm Store, with Allis-Chalmers farm equipment. All local dealers have been asked to participate in the event, which is expected to draw a crowd of about 1,500 to the county. Ben Gerke and Herman Bulmahn are on the farm equipment committee. About 10 acres of space will be available for any exhibits farm dealers wish to show. No charge will be made for exhibit space. In the same 20-acre field with the exhibits will be the parking space, contest headquarters, and the rural youth food tent. About 40 acres of the 100-acre* farm will be used in the contest, which will get under way at 10 a.m. Demonstrations and practice plowing will start at 9 a.m., and continue most of the day. Lambert Kraft, of Hoagland, will begin work Monday and bull(Continued on Page Four)

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II ■ 'I. Decatur. Indiana, Tuesday, August 20,1957.

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: Ike Appeals To : GOP Leaders On Aid Funds C ‘ Asks Congressional Leaders Back Fight On Restoring Funds ■ WASHINGTON (W — President I Eisenhower appealed to Republican congressional leaders today , to support his fight for a full-scale ! 83,367,000,000 foreign aid program. [ But Senate GOP Leader William . F. Knowland said only part of the 800 million dollars cut out of the aid appropriations bill by the ■ House last week is likely to be ’ restored by the Senate. Knowland reported after a White : House Republican conference that • the President strongly urged efi forts to make a "substantial restoration” to the House cut. He refused to predict whether • Eisenhower will be satisfied with i the expected Senate compromise figure, estimated by some aid supports at around three billion : dollars. Eisenhower’s threat to call a 1 special session of Congress this ! fall to seek an increased aid appropriation was not mentioned at the conference. Knowland said. ■ 1 The Striate Appropriations Com- ‘ mittee went to work on the aid money bill in closed session. It was sharply divided on whether to respond to urgent administration pleas for more aid funds. Knowland said the committee’s compromise proposal-between the House figure of $2,524,780,000 and the 83,367,000,000 earlier authorized by Congress and accepted by the administration-would be reported out late today. The Senate is expected to vote on its version of the aid appropriathe wide difference between the tion Wednesday. Knowland said Senate and House figures will necessitate sending the bill to a Hduse-Senate conference committee for compromise. Eisenhower has asked for the full $3,367,000,000 as the minimum (Continued on Par* Two) 1 Community Fund's Drive In October Directors To Meet Thursday Evening Plans for completely reorganizing the drive mechanics of the . Decatur Community Fund, Inc., will be mfide Thursday night in a meeting of the directors of the fund at the Decatur Community i Center at 8 p.m., M. J. Pryor, drive chairman, said this mornl tag. The new organization will i greatly decrease the number of personal contacts each worker . will have to make, Pryor explain- . ed. The nine directors of the Community Fund will be executive co-chairmen of the drive, under the new plan to be discussed ■ Thursday. Under each of the nine . co-chairmen will be five cap- ! tains. Each captain will have to con- . tact his five workers, and ar- , range their soliciting schedule i with them. Each worker will have i only one other person to contact [ besides himself. The drive will take place this year the second week in October, and it is planned to do as much l of the work as possible in one i week, rather than a month, as in previous years. ! Drive captains and work on the , budget will occupy the main part i of the meeting Thursday night. Executive co - chairmen will be i Art Burris, president of the group; the Rev. Virgil Sexton, i Ralph Habegger, Dorothy . Schnepf, Kenneth Shannon, Glennys Roop, Royal Friend, Tillman Gehrig, 'and Ed Jaberg. No big changes will take place . in the industrial solicitation drive, as now planned.

[Central Soya Plans New Building Here Erect Building For : Engineering Dept. ‘ Work on a new building to house the engineering department of the Central Soya company began today just south of the McMillen field diamond. I The engineering and technical department is now housed in the t old Central Sugar company building. The new building, which will ' be built by the Bultemeier Construction company, is expected to ! be completed about January 1, 1958. It will be situated 110 feet 1 back from Second street, and its ' entrance will face west. It will be a one-story rectangu- , lar structure about 45 feet by 145 feet, and completely fire resistant. A color stone exterior, with ’ heat resistant glass and alumin- ’ um windows, will be featured in its exterior. A self-supporting pantype steel deck roof will be coated with heat reflecting marble chips. The building’s interior will be air conditioned, with acoustical ceilings and controlled lighting among some of its more important features. The construction is taking place ‘ near the ball diamond, but it will not be necessary to destroy the ; diamond this year, it was under- ’ stopd. A long-range bujlding program, over a period of years, ' would lead to th6 Construction of several buildings in the area to house all the offices of the Decatur plant. No additional staff members from any other plant or headquarters are expected to be added to the new building. Slight Employment Increase For July / Monthly Business Barometer Figures Twelve more persons were employed in Decatur's seven industries during the month of July, as compared to the month of June, the monthly report of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce business barometer shows. A total of 1,402 persons were employed in Decatur industries during the past month, while 1,390 were employed at the end of June. This figure is down considerably from last July’s report, when 1,426 persons were employed, although then there were eight industries reporting. Industrial pay is much higher than last year-'s figures, with $635,833 being paid to industrial employes during the month of July this year, and $605,627 last year. Both of these amounts include the vacation pay for General Electric employes. During the month of June this year, payroll amounted to $511,896. - There were 3,948 electric meters in operation at the close of July, which is no change over the month of June, but 23 higher than a year ago. These figures include rural pa teems. Nine more water meters were in operation this past month than in June, with 2,528 in July, and 2,519 in June. In July of 1956, there were 2,525 water meters in operation. Gas meters were down over both last month’s and last year’s figures. There were 2,322 this : past month; 2,334 in June, and 2,- ■ 330 in July of last year. One more ■ telephone was in service last month than in the previous 1 month, with a total July record of 6,165, compared to 6,164 in June. In July of last year, there ' were 6,117 telephones in opera--1 tion, including rural phones. During July, direct poor relief * aided 76 persons in 21 cases, at ’ a total cost of $1,286. In June, ■ 77 persons were given aid in 20 * case studies, at a cost of $948. 1 Twelve persons received aid in ' the 38 cases bandied during July of ’56, at a cost of 8311. Sixty-segen births and four ' deaths were reported during July, as compared to 46 births and nine * deaths in June. In July of last ' year, 68 births and 11 deaths Continued On Fare Five

Report Russia Plans Mideast Base For Subs Reports Coincide With Growing Fear I Os Soviet Strength By WALTER LOGAN United Press Staff Correspondent Official quarters in London said * today there was mounting evidence the Soviet Union intends to establish a submarine base in the Middle East as a follow up to its victory in Syria. A Soviet submarine base in Syria, or one controlled by Russia, would outflank the Baghdad Pact powers, lessen the effectiveness of the U.S. 6th Fleet and would change the strategic picture in the Mediterranean. The reports coincided with growing fears in the Arab world itself that the Soviets were becoming too well entrenched. Mideast reports said Syrian President Shukri El Kuwatly was being approached for a “last resort” Arab conference to try and halt the Soviet ■ advance. 1 Unconfirmed rumors circulating ! in Beirut, Lebanon, said the Soviet ■ was pouring in technicians and civilians to speed the "takeover” of Syria. There was no confirmaf tion of these reports fit official quarters. NATO Allies to Confer In Cairo the government newspaper Al Gomhouria reported Syrian officers had trained in Poland to operate two Russian submarines being turned over to , Syria by the Soviet Union under their arms pact deal. Egypt recently received three submarines from the Soviets, but Al Gomhouria noted this was not , the same time of agreement reached in Moscow by Syrian Defense Minister Khaled Elazm. United Press diplomatic correspondent K.C. Thaler reported in London that the NATO pact Allies were expected to confer in Pans on this new threat to NATO and the Baghdad nations — Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Britain and Pakistan. British and American diplomats already were conferring on the new threat, but Washington dis(Oontinuod on P«*» Four) Monmouth Teacher Staff Completed Fort Wayne Teacher Rounds Out Faculty Charlotte Bergdoll, a graduate of the Fort Wayne Art School and a former instructor there, has signed a contract with the Adams county school system, and will teach art and serve as librarian at the Monmouth school. Harold Clinkenbeard. newly hired coach at Monmouth, is the only other new instructor. James Arnold, a former instructor at Monmouth, has returned after serving two years in the army, and will resume his duties as industrial arts instructor, according to the announcement made today by Loren S. Jones, school principal. High school instructors include Agnes Yagej, commercial subjects; Geraldine Herderhorst, home economics; Fred P. Meier, vocational agriculture and chemistry; Eloise Andrews, English, and Charlotte Bergdoll. Besides his duties as athletic coach, Clinkenbeard wUI instruct driver’s education classes. Martha Kleinbenz will instruct girls’ physical education classes, and John Rosier will teach social studies. Darrell Gehrig will again teach music and English classes, Brice Smith will teach mathematics and biology, and Arnold will conduct industrial arts classes. Elementary teachers and the grades they win teach include Alice Martin, grade one; Vera Harris, grade two; Jesteen Cole, grade three; Mary Dean Myers, grade four and part of grade five, and Earl Dawaid, part of grade five and grade six.

Present Livestock Prices To Prevail Production Below High Level Os '56 WASHINGTON (UP) - The Agriculture Department said today that present farm prices of livestock are expected to prevail at least through the first half of 1958. This means the retail price of meat probably will continue at its present level for the next year. The department’s publication, “The Livestock and Meat Situation, said the 1957 calf crop is down 2 per cent from 1956, the lamb crop is 3 per cent smaller, and the combined spring and fall pig crops are only 1 per cent larger. “It is likely,” the department concluded, “that livestock production and slaughter will continue for some time below their very high ' level of 1956. While employment ; and consumer incomes remain high, prices of livestock to produc- , ers, although fluctuating seasonal- ' ly, may be expected to retain this year's gain through at least the first half ot 1958.” Smaller Corn Crop Feed costs probably will be less in the coming feed season than last, the department said. All feed crops except corn are larger than last year. Those of hay, barley, and grain sorghums are of record The com- crop was estimated on d Aug. 1 at 3,666,060,000 bushels. 11 per cent less than 1956. Even though the com crop is smaller, the estimated total production of 130 million tons for the four feed grains is almost the same as last year. _ ♦ Not only would the prospective J output meet foreseeable needs, but i with support prices for feed grains i lower, their market prices likely ! will average a little lower. Prices of all classes and kinds ] of meat animals in early August < were above those of a year ago. I Increases varied from 11.50 per 100 i pounds for lambs to more than $5 I for hogs. The department said i Continued On Page Five Four Mew Teachers For Adams Central Complete Faculty Os t School Is Announced j Four new instructors have been added to the Adams Central , school staff, according to an an- j nouncement made today by Hugh ( Tate, assistant superintendent, j Herman Frantz is high school principal. ] Teaching commerce and physi- i cal education classes this year ■ will be Wanda Archbold, who ] formerly taught in the East Union < school system in Wells county. < Robert W. Shoup, former assistant principal and instructor at West « Unity, Ohio, will teach. English 1 and social studies. John Eichenberger, recently ‘ graduated from Heidelberg college 3 at Tiffin, Ohio, will begin his ’ teaching career as a fourth and ‘ fifth grade instructor at Adams ( Central, while Leon Gerig, a brother to Don J. Gerig, is the other new teacher. As he has yet to complete his student teaching, he will not begin duties here until the first part of October, when he will assume direction of the chorus and assist with the school’s band. Other teachers who will be returning this school year include Thomas Adler, science and mathematics; Lucile Beavers, mathematics and English; Imogene Beihold, English and library; Robert L. Brown, social studies; Leroy C. Cable, coach, mathematics and driver’s training and Doyle Collier, industrial arts. Hubert Feasel, art; John Fruth, commerce and freshman coach; Don J. Gerig, band; Harvey Haggard. school finance and social studies; Douglas LeMaster, junior high school coach and science; ( Rowena Stucky, English and Latin and Martin Watson, vocational ; agriculture and home economics. 1 Grade school instructors include Jay K. Johnson and Leo Strahm, < (Coattaaoe «a Face Ftro) I

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Stale Audit Report Backs Road Scandals Audit Shows State Paid For Land Not On Highway Routes INDIANAPOLIS (UP)—Hie.lndiana State Board ot .Accounts issued a state highway scandal audit today showing the state paid money for right-of-way that was not on highway routes. The report on Madison Ave. Expressway deals, which earlier brought indictments against former chairman Virgil (Red) Smith and three other persons, was one of two handed Governor Handley by accounts board chief examiner Thomas Hindman. Hindman and Atty. Gen. Edwin Steers said the reports confirmed newspaper stories of huge windfall profits and shady deals during the administration of former Gov. George Craig. Norrald Profits Bared The audit showed the state paid $114,350 for five lots in-the Madison Ave. (Indianapolis) area which were wholly or partly outside the route of the new expressway. It showed Indiana paid a total of $4,523,177 for right-of-way on the Madison. Ave. projeat alone. Another audit confirmed report* > of “quickie” profits, by the Norgold Corp., Gary, in buying and reselling to the state land for the Tri-State Expressway at Gary. It showed Norgold paid $56,000 for 12 properties and quickly resold them to the highway department for $101,325—a profit of $45,325. The firm, which owned no other property, was incorporated by Chicagoans A.J. Mitchell Jr., W.H. Shipley and L. Misch, the report said. It listed the first board of directors as Norman Levenberg, George Goldstein and Carol Enslen, all of Gary. Spiro Skaltsas, attorney and former highway official, was hired to examine the titles, the audit said. N® Charge* Included Hindman said no charges were included in either audit. “We found some interesting things, but as far as substantiating a charge we couldn’t 'do it,” he said. Steers told a news conference an investigation of tax records showed “a number” of person* named in the scandal were deficient in gross income taxes. Some filed amended returns, he said. Steers declined to name them. But he indicated they included some of the five persons indicted so far and some others. He praised newspapers for "a wonderful job and a complete job in exposing misdeeds. “I think factually all of the newspaper stories bore \ out the facts,” he said. . . •Steers brought a foot-high stack of “evidence” collected since Handley named a three-man committee to investigate the scandals. Steers called hte probe extremely successful" and promised cooperation with all county prosecutors. Makes Restitution CROWN POINT, Ind. (IP)—Prosecutor Metro Holovachka revealed today that Frank M. Chapman, general treasurer of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters international union, has made "full restitution” of $78,416 profits he made on right-of-way deals in the Lake County phase of the Indiana highway scandals. Holovachka told a Lake County grand jury investigating land buying and selling along the Tri-State Expressway route at Gary that Chapman delivered through an attorney last Friday a certified check for $74,581 and followed it up this morning with a cash payment of $3,835. The jury, after hearing several witnesses Monday and today, made a report saying it found it did not have jurisdiction to return any indictments since evidence showed that the deals for the Lake County lots and lands were made outside the county—in Indianapolis. , (Continued on P*<« Two)