Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 197, Decatur, Adams County, 21 August 1957 — Page 1

Vol. LV. No. 197.

TELLS OF WIFE’S BUSINESS DEALS IB * B | I •■■wtf s JT-WII J ‘K ■ IMtaF Ann I «• _ hHb ‘ JAMES R. HOFFA, Teamsters union vice president, tells the senate rackets committee about business deals in which he and his wife have been involved. The business operations related to the lease of equipment to concerns having contracts with the Teamsters.

Public School Registration Dates Fixed

Registration plans for the students of the three Decatur public schools were announced today by principals of the schools, Hugh J. Andrews, high school; Byrce Thomas, Lincoln grade school, and Hubert Zerkel, Jr., Northwest grade school. Registration dates will be held next week at all the schools, under the following schedule: Lincoln School Pupils will report to the school auditorium to receive room assignments and information concerning rental books on the following schedule: Sixth grade—Monday, Aug. 2ft, 9 a.m. . - ■ v Fifth grade—Monday. Aug. 26,’ 1 p.m. ''' "■ ' • •»■ Fourth grade—Tuesday, Aug. 27, 9 a.m. — Third grade—Tuesday, Aug. 27. 1 p.m. Second grade — Wednesday, Aug. 28, 9 a.m. First grade—Wednesday, Aug. 28, 1 pm. Seventh grade—Friday, Aug. 30, 9 a.m. Northwest School Pupils at the Northwest school will report to receive room assignments and rental■ book information under the following schedule: Sixth grade—Monday, Aug. 26, 9 a m - Fifth grade—Monday, Aug. 26, 10:30 a.m. Fourth grade—Tuesday, Aug. 27, 9 a.m. Third grade—Tuesday, Aug. 27, 10:30 a.m. Second grade — Wednesday, Aug. 28, 9 a.m. First grade—Wednesday, Aug. 28, 10:30 a.m. High School High school students will register under the following schedule: Seniors—Monday, Aug. 26, from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. Juniors—T uesd ay. Aug. 27, from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. Sophomores —W ednesday, Aug. 28, from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. Freshmen— Thursday. Aug. 29, from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. Eighth grade—Friday, Aug. 30 with all members of the grade to report at 9 a.m. Locker keys will be issued at time of registration and the book rental room will be open for the distribution of books. Pupils of the various grades and high school students are requested to abide by the scheduled for all classes, the principals emphasized. Kindergarten Parents of all children who are planning to enter kindergarten at the Lincoln school are asked to register for their pupils Thurs'day, Aug. 29. Boys’ registration will be from 9 a.m. until 11 a.m., and girls' registration from 1 p.m. until 3 p.m. Parents will be requested to pay a $2 registration fee and present the child s birth certificate. Parents of all children who are XtO enroll in kindergarten at the Northwest school will be notified Continued On P»ge Five Selective Service Hours Are Reduced James K. Staley, chairman of the Adams county selective service board, has been notified by Indiana state headquarters, Indianapolis, of a reduction in hours for the local board. The new office schedule will be Monday through Thursday, 8 to 11:30 a.m., and 12:30 to 5 p.m. each of the four days.

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. — Simons Lands After Flight As Spaceman Air Force Officer Lands Safely After Record Space Flight FREDERICK, S.Q. (UP) - An Air Force spaceman, who spent 32 hours exploring the edge of the stratosphere, emerged from his record flight tired but thrilled to have proved that man can exist in outer space. Maj. David G. Simons, 35, a balding Air Force doctor, returned his huge balloon safely to earth near Elm Lake in northern South Dakota at 5:28 p.m. c.d.t., Tues- : day. He had attained an atltitude of more than 19 miles during his unprecendented flight. An Air Force spokesman said ] Simons’ marathon voyage into the ' heavens showed that man can live ; and function for extended periods ( in outer space. Was Not Lonesome “It was very much like riding an elevator, except you keep on going up and up and up and up.” he told a reporter after his landing. Asked if he had any sensation of having been away for a long time, he said “No, I was busy all the time, with plenty of things to occupy my personal attention,” and he said he was not lonesome, at least “not in the sense that I didn't have anything to do.” He said his greatest sensation i of height came Tuesday morning. | “There was a layer of cirrus i clouds just below me. They were ' close to me, just like you were in an airplane. Suddenly it ended, ; and the earth was 50,000 feet below. It was like looking over the edge of a gigantic, largest, cliff on earth." The space pioneer brought back ' 'a tale of being surrounded by a I purple sky, even in the daytime, i and of observing the stars glowing "like an animal's eyes.” Space Travel Link But of even greater importance, Simons proved that man can live ; for extended periods beyond the shackles of the earth’s atmo- , sphere. His ordeal was a major j link in experimentation that may , some day lead the way to space travel. . i Two farm youths were the first , to greet the spaceman when he ( stepped uncertainly but unhurt , from the small, aluminum gondola in which he had been sealed since , Sunday night. Simons, a native of Lancaster, j Pa., smiled at them and asked: “Hello, how are you? Where am I?” A short time later, several Air | Force planes and helicopters and 1 private planes also landed in the , flax field on the Fred Schense farm near here. (Cont::uM on r»w Six) j < INDIANA WEATHER 1 Partly cloudy, rather cool tonight. Thursday mostly sunny. Low tonight 53-62. High 1 Thursday 705. Sunset 7:33 1 p.m., sunrise Thursday 6:03 ' a.m. Outlook for Friday: Partly cloudy and a little , warmer. Low Thursday night 62-68. High Friday 85-90.

Reds Purging More Syrian Army Leaders Pro-Soviet Coup Leaders Continue Purge Os Syrians By WALTER LOGAN United Press Staff Correspondent Pro-Soviet elements in Syria have purged another group of army officers and replaced them with active Communists to consolidate further ■ their bloodless revolution, Israeli dispatches reported today. Reports also reached Jerusasalem, >rael and Beirut, Lebanon, that Syrian President Shukri El Kuwatly had resigned. But Damascus Radio and the Cairo press insisted he would return home in a few days from an Egyptian hospital. The Syrian-American crisis was heightened Tuesday night when Syria renewed its charges of an “American “plot” to overthrow the government and saw} “made in America gangsters” were to have assassinated Syria’s leaders. Anti-American Broadcasts Moscow Radio increased its anti-American broadcasts to the Middle East and accused America of “unprecedented interference ... in the internal affairs of Near and Middle Eastern countries.” Reports reached Jerusalem, Israel. from Damascus that th t leftist military clique in Syria arrested five brigade commanders and Brig. Omar Kabani, former deputy chief of staff and recent military attache to Jordan. The reports said the arrest of Kabani occasioned surprise throughout Syria and showed the thoroughness of the Communist coup. He was among the signers of the arms accord with the Soviet Union. Maj. Gen. Afif Bizri army chief of staff, told a news conference in Damascus Tuesday night the United States planned to send made in America gangsters” to assassinate him and other top officers. »■ J».. -JU There were reports Syria might take the alleged American “.plot” to the U.N. Security Council, but U.N. officials said no complaint had been filed with Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold. Bizri did not mention it. Doubts and Fean The takeover in Syria was still raising doubts and fears in other nations. Jerusalem sources said Israel was anxiously awaiting any United States efforts to counteract the Soviet coup but speculated any action would come from Turkey which now has Communist or Communist - influenced nations on three sides. Continued On Pax« Five Handley Opposes Tax Use To Buy Turnpike Contrast To Former Stand By Governor INDIANAPOLIS (UP) — Governor Handley said today he is opposed to the federal government using Hoosier-collected gasoline taxes to buy the Indiana toll road. Handley made the statement after hearing that the Federal Bureau of Public Roads took 2,100 miles of toll superhighways, including the 151-mUe Northern Indiana turnpike, into the federal interstate highway system and left it up to Congress whether the road should be purchased and made toll-free. Handley said Indiana sends 92 million dollars a year to Washington in federal gasoline taxes. "If that’s going to be used to buy the East-West Toll Road, then I’m opposed to it,” the governor said. “We happen to have a stretch of toll road that is beginning to pay off.” That attitude seemed in contrast to Handley's attitude when, as presiding officer of the state Senate in 1955 while lieutenant-gover-nor, he lined up with an “antitoll road" element to prevent plans of then Gov. George Craig for expanding the state toll road network. However, Handley indicated it was not a change of attitude. He said he favored the present superhighway but opposed Craig’s plans to criss-cross the state "with several others while free highways were crumbling. The* upstate-road, used chiefly by non-Hoosiers on trips from one out-of-state point to another, began to produce a profit in June, nearly a year after it was pened. The federal bureau’s action was not too clear to Indiana officials, particularly concerning the chances of the road becoming toll free. They believed, however, that the federal government could let the state maintain the road and continue to collect tolls, where<Coatt»aM «• race Five)

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Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, August 21, 1957.

Eisenhower Expresses His Disappointment On Congress Record

House Group Makes Another Cui In Budget Chop $216 Million Out Os Funds For Atom Commission WASHINGTON (UP)-The House Appropriations Committee, taking its final whack of the year at President Eisenhower's budget requests, chopped almost 216 million dollars today from Atomic Energy Commission funds. The committee, acting on the last regular money bill of this congressional session, approved $2,269,718,500 to run the atomic agency in the fiscal year that started last July 1. The President had asked for $2,485,625,000. If the committee’s action is sustained, the House according to the committee's figures, will have slashed a total of $5,416,620,809 from the administration’s requested $58,485,233,806 in appropriations. This does not mean that the President’s record spending estimate for the year—s7l,Boo,ooo,ooo —will be reduced by anything like that amount. Appropriations and spending figures for a fiscal year are net necessarily similar. The committee eliminated 30 million dollars sought for AEC assistance to private utilities seeking a start in the atomic power program under the government’s "third .round" invitations. And it disallowed all funds sought for the Powfir Reactor Development Co., of Detroit, Mich. However, the committee in its report told AEC it can use up to $1,500,000 for research in its own laboratories looking toward the Detroit project. The money would come from funds made available elsewhere in the bill for work on a fast breeder reactor. The bill provides funds for the Consumer Power District of Nebraska and the AEC “partnership” arrangement in construction of a nuclear reactor and government construction of reactors for four other public power organizations—the city of Piqua, Ohio, and rural electric cooperatives at Elk River, Minn., Hersey, Mich., and Chu(Cauttßned «■ Pare Five) Warn Motorists To Watch School Buses Warning Coincides With School Opening The local sheriff’s office, state police and city police today issued a stern warning to all motorists to be on the alert for the familiar yellow school buses, which will carry Adams county school children to and from their schools, starting Friday. Sheriff Merle Affolder stated that the county has transported its children for several years without a serious accident. It is only through the co-operation of the motorists and bus drivers that this important job Is made possible, he pointed out. Strict enforcement of all traffic laws in regard to the loading and unloading of school children, has been promised by all enforcement agencies in the county. Motorists are reminded that the law states any driver overtaking or meeting a school bus engaged in receiving or discharging school children, shall bring the vehicle to a complete stop before passing the school bus, and shall not proceed until such children have gotten on or off the bus. "School’s Open” signs are being posted near all the county schools, and extra caution should be used near all the schools, as children just starting school are sometimes not familiar with cross walks and safety rules. Representing both the law and parents, Affolder said today, “Co-operation caution is requested from all citizens to make transportation of our children a safe job.”

Cify Councilmen In Regular Meet Approve Contract On New Well House An ordinance approving a contract for construction of well number 15 was passed by city council members, who met .in regular session In the council -room of city hall Tuesday evening. Two petitions were also studied by the legislative body, several correspondences were read, and Mayor Cole, who presided, presented important announcements. The contract for construction of well number 15, which will be located just 800 feet west of well number 12, in a field on the Dailey farm, has been entered intq by the city and Moody Brothers, ; of Rockford, Ohio. The ordinance passed all three necessary readings. Eight Decatur residents signed a petition which was presented at last night’s meeting, requesting that a health menace arising from an outside toilet located at 719 Patterson street be investigated. Authors of the petition, ' which was referred to the board ’ of health, are Lester Cowans, ' Archie Wendell, Dorothy M. Er- ' vin, Donald C. Harmon, Amos L. ' Harmon, Edith Ervin, and Mr. and Mrs? Joseph Kaehr, Sr. t A petition requesting authority . to construct a 16-foot wide alley . was presented to the council, and was signed by representatives of Gerber’s Super Market and Holthouse on the Highway. The alley would be across a present easement, and would extend from the corner of Marshall and Twelfth streets north for a distance of 400 feet. It was voted that the petition be referred to the street and sewer committee, which was given power to act. State district personnel of the Indiana state highway department have been requested to investigate the sidewalk along the St. Mary’s river bridge in Decatur, according to a letter received from that department. City Continued On Page Five Publicize State Plowing Contests Newspapers, Radio, TV Aid Publicity Ben Mazelin, chairman of the state plowing contest, will appear on a WKJG-TV news telecast about 12:45 p.m. Thursday to explain the state plowing contest, to be held four miles east of Decatur on the Ward and Jay Chapman farm next Tuesday. Friday, county agent Leo N. Seltenright will appear with Jay Gould on the Utile Red Barn at 6:15 a.m. and Dinner on the Farm at 11:35 a.m. to explain the demonstrations which will be held at the same time as the state plowing contest, which starts at 10 a.m. Tuesday, and continues all day. Monday at 12:15 o'clock, last year’s state plowing winners, Wilfred Oldfather, Jr., of near North Manchester, and Bill Dluzak, of near Wabash, and the winners of today’s area contest in Steuben county, will appear on the Wayne Rothgeb farm program to tell how they each plan to win the state contest. The contest is sponsored jointly by the Krick-Tyndall company, and the state association of soil conservation district supervisors. Co-sponsors include the Purdue agricultural extension service, the soil conservation service, and Adams county farm implement dealers. The state contest has been advertised over the entire state in some 4,000 newspapers, radio stations, TV stations, and commercial bulletins, including the Prairie Farmer magazine, and many others. More than 1,500 people are expected to attend the event, which includes a tiling, ditching, and grass waterways construction demonstration.

Says Teamster Locals Bought Ricca Estate Charge Hoffa Union Locals Paid Mobster ; $ 150/XX) for Estate WASHINGTON O) — The SenJ ate Rackets Committee said today two of James R. Hoffa's Teamster Union locals paid $150,000 for the country estate of Capone mobster Patil (The Waiter) Ricca. 1 Hoffa, accused of being an ally of the New York underworld, told the committee he never met the Chicago hoodlum and could find no trace of his name in the deal for the mansion. Committee Counsel Robert F. Kennedy said one of the union checks for the property bore the endorsement of Paul De Lucia. He said this is another name for Ricca. "I say we did not purchase from Paul Ricca,” Hoffa snapped. The fast-talking Hoffa, probably next president of the Teamsters Union, said the estate near Chicago was bought by the union , aS a school in which, to teach un- , ion officials how to handle welI fare and pension funds. Hoffa f said the estate was bought by Local 337 and his home Local 299, ’ in Detroit, and turned over to . the union’s Joint Council 43. t He said after the purchase was 1 first publicized, he had the ab- . stract company check the records and could not find Ricca’s name. He said he did not know Ricca and De Lucia were the same —or why someone named De Lucia got the union’s check. He said the property was purchased from a trust company. This was Hoffa’s second day on the witness stand. Tuesday the committee went over his personal finances and brought out that ; he had borrowed about $120,000 1 from his Local 299 in Detroit, , other Teamster officials and businessmen having dealings with the local. Most of the loans were obtained without paying interest, signing notes or putting up col- 1 lateral. He still owes ‘‘around about $70,000” of this, he said. The alleged link with Ricca bobbed up as the co m m 111 e e worked up to the main charge of its 15-day hearing: That Hoffa enlisted labor racketeers Johnny Dio and Anthony (Tony Ducks) Corallo to help him grab control of the Teamsters in New York. In 15 days of public hearings (Continual on Pax* Four) Mrs. Grace Bohner I Is Taken By Death Funeral Services Friday Afternoon Mrs. Grace Helen Bohner, 64, j a former Decatur resident, died at 11:15 o’clock Tuesday morn- 1 ing at her home, 1619 Southdale . street, Fort Wayne. She had been . in failing health tor several , months. Death was caused by a coronary occlusion. She was born in Decatur Jan. j 12, 1893; a daughter of C. and Dora Merica-Lewis, and was J married to Doyle Bohner Jan. 18, ’ 1923. They moved to Fort Wayne 1 about 15 years ago. Mrs. Bohner was a member of • the Baptist church. Surviving in addition to the * husband are a brother, Curtis 1 Wolfe, of Decatur, and a sister, t Mrs. Dolly McKinnon of Colum- 1 bus, O. One brother and one sis- J ter preceded her in death. 1 Funeral services will be eon- 1 ducted at 2 o.m. Friday at tile i Black funeral home, the Rev. Stuart Brightwell officiating. 1 Burial will be in the Decatur ] cemetery. Friends may call at < the funeral home after 7 o’clock 1 this evening until time of the ser- 1 vices. 1

Faculties Listed In Rural Schools Principals Meeting With Grabill Today Gail M. Grabill, county superintendent of schools, today announced the complete list of instructors for each of the remaining county schools. The list of teachers sou the Monmouth and Adams Central schools was published in Tuesday’s edition of the Dally Democrat. All county school principals met with Grabill early this afternoon making final plans for teachers institute to be held Thursday, and for students’ organization day Friday. Two vacancies still exist in the county faculty, with an opening for a home economics instructor at Adams Central, and an elementary teacher for the Geneva grade school. . Pleasant Mills Glen B. Custard will again return as principal of the Pleasant Mills school, and he will also conduct mathematics courses there. Four new instructors have been added to the Pleasant Mills staff for the coming year. Rebecca Lehman, a recent graduate of Bob Jones University, will begin her teaching career as an English and Latin instructor at Pleasant Mills, and Doyle Lehman, who taught in Decatur county before M»teatag-4hlß armed forces, will instruct vocational agriculture and science classes. The other two. Bob Schisler of Geneva, and Edward Liechty of Berne, were announced earlier this week. Schisler will have mathematics and science clases and Liechty will teach social studies classes. ? Teaching art and music will be Helen Ehrsham, and Alice Luyben will have home economics and girls’ physical education classes. Besides his added duties as coach at Pleasant Mills, Arnold Getting will teach commerce, physical education and driver’s training. Myron Lehman will instruct junior high classes. i Grade school teachers include William Griffiths, Delores Mitchel and Alice Michaels. Bobo Teachers at the Bobo grade school will remain the same, with (Continued on Page Tnre«> Community-Wide Kiddies Day Friday Plan Entertainment Here All Day Friday Plans are being completed today for the free community-wide "Kiddie’S Day" to be conducted in Decatur Friday. The event is being sponsored by 37 local merchants and promises to be a day of fun for all youngsters. A portable stage will be erected on Madison street, between First and Second streets, to accomodate the two professional acts which have been contracted to appear. Previously it was announced that the shows would be conducted at the courthouse square, but officials in charge have announced that the block of Madison street will be blocked off instead. Children who plan to enter their pets in the pet parade are asked to report to the east end of the Madison square, at 10:30 a.m. The parade will begin at 11 a.m.. with appropriate cash prizes to be awarded in several best pet categories. The “Mysterious Lawrence,” king of the unicycle, will lead the parade. He will also take part in three of the day’s shows, to be given at 11 a.m M 3 p.m., and 7:30 p.m. Also appearing will be H. T. Lynch’s Magio-Rama featuring Bob King, master of illusion and mystification. County school children are to report at their schools as planned Friday morning, but it was reported that most schools’ organization programs would be concluded in time for' the children to attend the kiddie’s day activities. ' •

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Says Russians Trying To Take Syria Control Defends Requests For Foreign Aid At News Conclave ’ WASHINGTON (UP)—President Eisenhowdf said today he is tre- ! mendously disappointed in the record to date of this session of Congress. At his weekly news conference, Eisenhower also took a cautious stand on the Communist seizure of power in Syria. He said the ' situation is not an instance at present that justifies any action under the Eisenhower Middle East doctrine. He charged that Russia is trying to take over Syria. On domestic matters, Eisenhower indicated a willingness to accept a compromise version of the jury trial amendment to the civil , rights bill somewhere between the 1 Senate version, which he still op- . poses, and his original position. , The compromise proposal will be . announced later today or Thursi day by House Republican leaders. 1 Defends Foreign AM Request ’ The President also told reporti ers he earnestly hopes that con- * Sessional leaders of both parties * will get together and finish action * on the civil rights bill at this session of Congress rather than letf ting it go into an election year, f He did not think it would be r proper to have the emotions of - the people torn over such an issue I next year during congressional ; and state elections. Other highlights of Eisenhower's , meeting with reporters: , —He expressed again his hope > that the Senate would restore every cent of the reduced foreign aid appropriation to the level of ‘ the original authorization bill, then make the best possible deal out of a House-Senate conference. —He said the 41 American students who have gone to Red China from the youth meeting in Moscow were badly advised and are doing a disservice to their country. Still Pinas Vacation —He said he sees no usefulness in contemplating a special session of Congress on civil rights. He reiterated that the world situation would have to dictate the necessity of a special session on foreign aid should Congress end up voting what he regards as insufficient funds. —Eisenhower said he plans to remain in Washington as long as Congress is in session, but that if the House and Senate wind up their affairs in about the next 10 days or so and if Mrs. er’s medical condition permits, he still hopes to take a holiday at Newport, R.I. He added, however, that his vacation plans become more indefinite each day. Eisenhower was asked to appraise the congressional treatment of the administration program this year and to evaluate the job done by Congress. The President said that he had looked over the long list of recommendations he sub ,Uontlnue>* on t-exe 8U) Laboratory, X-Ray Technician Hired Miss Lois Archival, of Dover, 0., has been hired as a new lab? oratory and X-ray technician, starting about the middle of September, Thurman Drew, Adams county memorial hospital manager, said today. Miss Archival has just graduated from a technician’s course at Elkhart technicians school, in Elkhart. She will replace Mrs. Edith Suder, who will leave October 1, after training Miss Archival fair two weeks. The new technician was a classmate of Miss Dianne Shipman, who will start work August 26 as a lab and X-ray technician replacing Miss Pat Lucas, who resigned in July. Miss Archival was highly recommended by the school, and by Miss Shipman, who will be her co-worker in the Adams hospital laboratory and X--1 ray department.