Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 291, Decatur, Adams County, 11 December 1957 — Page 1

Vol. LV. No. 291

SUBWAY SPILLAGE— New York’s subway strike makes this bumper-to-bumper scene and spads more like it as the teeming millions take to their wheels. This is First avenue. That’s the UN building curving in the background. ,

Violence Is Reported In Subway Strike Bus Operations In New York Threatens New Traffic Crisis NEW YORK (UP) — Violence broke out in New York City’s strike-crippled subway system today and a new transport crisis threatened breakdown of city bus operations. A 3-foot length of pipe was hurled at a Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit subway motorman as his train passed through an open cut in Brooklyn's Canarsie line early today, subway police reported. The pipe missed the motorman. shattered a window and struck a rider on the elbow. He refused medical treatment. ~ . A? The city was snarled for the third day in a strike which has cut the five-million-passenger-a-Service. Harassed commuters faced a further possible transport cut on city bus lines which have been striving to take up some of the displaced subway riders. There was no sign of a break in the strike which was begun Monday morning by the small Motormen’s Benevolent Assn., to protest its domination by the giant Transport Workers Union. Six other small unions, one of which also includes city bus maintenance workers, have joined the walkout. Fantastic Traffic Jam Four leaders of the MBA remained in jail for contempt of court and the** acting strike leader, Secretary-Treasurer Frank Zelano, was ordered to appear in court to show cause why he should not be jailed for continuing the strike in the face of a court injunction. A Transit Authority spokesman said 600 bus maintenance men -were off the job this morning. ‘ Buses are fueled to last through the morning rush hour only, he said. Even if re-fueling can be accomplished, he said, the normal rate of mechanical breakdown could lay up between 5 and 10 per cent of the bus fleet a day as long as the shop workers stay out. The city was snarled in a fantastic traffic jam that reached miles into the commuting suburbs. Many travelers started for work hours earlier than usual, jamming highways and available public transportation at 6 a.m. Enough stayed home so that there was less apparent snarl at the 8 to 9 a.m. commuter rush than on the first day of the strike and in some spots apparently less than normal. Stores Lose Millions Dally The city’s commerce was slowed with losses in the millions by strike-caused absenteeism of an estimated 10 per cent of the business force. A United Press survey showed department store losses of more than two million dollars daily in the Christmas shopping week which should have been one of the year’s biggest. Department store Santa Clauses looked but into child-empty toy departments throughout the city. The Board of Education said one million school children had missed all or most of their classes as a (Continued on Pxge Five) Goodfellows Club Previously Reported -— $200.00 Women of the Moose 10.00 Ben Trout r- 500 , Mr. & Mrs. G. J. Buckley 5:00 A Friend 20-00 A Friend 2.00 Mr. & Mrs. T. F. Graliker . 5.00 First State Bank 25.00 ’ TOTAL $272.00

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More Donations To Youth Center Sale Auction Sale For Center On Saturday A total of 24 gasoline service stations and related industries will give $367.45 worth of new items for the auction sale to help the Decatur Youth Center Saturday at 8 p. m. at the old Ford agency building at Third and Monroe streets, Cal Yost, chairmar ci the garage and service it tec committee, said today. Yost has also arranged for tpace heaters to warm the huge garage part which will be used for the sale. Door prizes will be awarded to seven people who are present during the auction. A bake sale, sponsored entirely by the Teen council of the Youth Center, wall start at 2 p.m. Saturday. AU women’s organizations, fraternal groups, and all merchants have been contacted, and asked to attend the sale. Any station which has been missed in the solicitation that desires to give something to the sale should contact Yost immediately. Some of the gifts are being delivered to the place of sale, and others are being picked up that day. J The following items have been donated by the merchants, and will be auctioned off to the highest bidder Saturday night: Beav- , ers Statical, a Schwinn bicycle; Quit Super Servcie, five quarts of oil, changed; Riverside garage, five quarts of No. 10 oil; Phil L. Macklin, gasoline; Parkway 66 service station, a rear view mirror, installed; Ernest Baumann's garage, one gallon oil; Decatur Super Service, one gaUon outside white paint; Burke’s Standard Service, one oil change; D. & T. Standard Service, two gallons of permanent anti-freeze; Gay’s Mobil Service station, five quarts of oil; Conrad Phillip 66, wash and lubrication job; Petrie Oil company, 12 polishing cloths, Scottie Dog, and 4-5 quarts Mobil Special Oil; Yost Gravel-Ready-Mix Inc., three yards 3000 ibs. Concrete delivered within a five mile radius; < Gateway Service Station, oil ' change and lubrication for a car; Hi-way Service Station, a spot- j light; Decatur Auto Supply, two sets of open wrenches; Schwartz Ford Garage, two rear view , mirrors, locking gas cap, and ] two reflectors for traffic; Krick- - Tyndall Tile Mill, 1,000 feet of 4inch tile; Eddie’s Marathon Station, four quarts of oil; Reinking ■ Garageft four quarts of oil; But- ■ ler's- garage, five quarts of oil; • Saylors Motor Co., sun visor; 1 National Oil & Gas, Phillips 66 1 distributor of Bluffton, 100 gallons of fuel oil and 100 gallons , of gas; Zintsmaster Service Station, lubrication and oil change. ; Retailers To Offer More Shopping Hours Decatur retailers will offer evening shopping hours for the convenience of -Christmas buyers beginning Friday evening. Most of the city's stores will be open each night, beginning Friday, until 9 p.m., including Monday, Dec. 23. Stores will close at 5:30 p.m. Dec. 24. to permit owners and employes to spend Christmas Eve with their families. ?, ' ■ Stores which normally close at noon Thursday will be open tomorrow afternoon and all day Thursday, Dec. 19, until 9 p.m.

Ike Is Given Go-Ahead To Attend Parley Eisenhower Given Go-Ahead Following Medical Checkup WASHINGTON (UP)—President Eisenhower waded today into preparations for next week's heads-of-state Paris parley that has been suddenly invigorated by his ability to attend. The decision of the 67-year-old President to go despite a mild stroke 16 days ago sparked new hopes at home and abroad that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) summit conference will succeed in producing new unity and an answer to Russia’s missile-scientific threat. The President, given -a- medical go-ahead Tuesday to make the trip, scheduled a morning conference with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. They were-.expect-ed to discuss U.S. proposals to be presented at the meeting. -- - - To Answer Russian Note Eisenhower and Dulles also were confronted today with answering a 15-page note from Soviet Premier Nikolai A. Bulganin proposing a new round of high level East-West talks on acute world problems. U.S. officials labelled it a strategically-timed propaganda maneuver designed to discourage NATO aies from taking any strong new defensive measures. Contents of the note were expected to be made public Tthursday. Eisenhower flies to Paris Friday. Before he goes the President may have his answer ready for Bulganin The team of six doctors pronounced the President in “excellent” physical condition in a White House announcement late Tuesday. The announcement said he was sufficiently recovered from the Nov. 25 cerebral attack to go to Paris. Western European leaders reacted to the news with a sigh of relief. Reaction also was favorable from two Congressional delegates to the NATO parliamentary conference. Symbol of Peace Sen. Thomas H. Kuchel (RCalif.) said “the President is a symbol of mankind's desire for peace. His attendance.. .will assure constructive action In strengthening NATO’s defenses.” Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-Tenn.) said “I hope that he (Eisenhower) will conserve his strength. But his presence there will be very important." White House Physician Gen. Howard McC. Snyder and Maj. John Eisenhower, the President’s son, will accompany him. Eisenhower will stay at the American embassy. The White House medical announcement Tuesday indicated the President is still suffering from a slight speech difficulty. But the statement said it has “continued to improve and in ordinary conversation was almost impossible to detect” except by trained observers.” INDIANA WEATHER Fair and quite cold with diminishing winds tonight except snow flurries continuing near .J Lake Michigan early tonight. Thursday fair, warmer in afternoon. Low tonight sere to 10 above. High Thursday in the 20s. Sunset today 5:21 p.m. Sunrise Thursday 7:56 a.m. Outlook for Friday: Mostly fair and warmer. Lows Thursday night 15-25. Highs Friday in the 40s.

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, December 11, 1957.

AFL-CIO In Demands WI) < ■■ 9$ ' « *' ' i' s ■ .f •- ■” ‘ ■ For Pay Increases, Reject Wage Freeze

Season's Most Severe Cold In Indiana Today Near Zero Recorded In Indiana, Drifting Sndw Adds Hazards By UNITED PRESS A 24-hour snowstorm, borne by blustery winds, howled across Indiana and dumped some areas with as much as a 7-inch blanket of white amid near-zero tempera-? tures. At least three deaths were blamed directly or indirectly on the snow, which blocked secondary highways and snarled traffic in a tier of northwestern counties. Two persons fell dead of heart attacks while shoveling snow at South Bend, and an Indianapolis motorist was killed when his car skidded on an icy pavement. |I The mercury dropped near zero all around the state with Lafayette's 3 above the coldest reported. Schools were closed through most of the rural areas in LaPorte and 1 st.» Joseph Counties when snow, which began falling shortly after noon Tuesday and still was filing near noon today, drifted deeply a&oss county roads artS prevented buses from making their trips. J ' - -Warms Up Friday _ Another cold night with zero to 10 above readings was predicted for tonight, after which the mercury will warm up to the 20s Thursday and the 40s Friday. The State Highway Department reported 7 inches of snow at LaPorte, and generally 1 to 3 inches over the northern third of the state, 1 to 1% inches in the central section as far south as Bloomington, Columbus and Linton, and less in the southern third. Main roads were mostly cleared except scattered slippery spots. Continues on "’age Five) Community Fund Is Above Fixed Quota Donations Are Above Goal Set For Year M. J. Pryor, general chairman of the Community Fund drive conducted here in October, announced today that recent donations have finally brought fund contributions up to $18,484.43, which is $34.43 above the 1957 goal. Community fund drive officials had earlier expressed confidence that the quota would be met but the announcement on reaching the giol was withheld until the actual amount had been raised. More than $12,000 of the total was raised through local industries and their employes, Pryor stated, adding that the drive officials and chest agencies are extremely grateful for the splendid cooperation of the industrial group. The participating industries included General Electric. Central Soya, Decatur Casting, Krick-Tyn-dall, Decatur Industries, the Schafer company, Wayne Novelties, the Bag Service and Yost Construction company. Other industries have indicated plans for contributions which will push the final total ev-en-higher, Pryor said. Pryor’s report continued with the amounts brought into the fund by other general groups. These include service and professional, more than $2,000; sororities, clubs, churches, schools and city, county and postal employes, in excess of $1,700, and the balance from the retail division of the campaign. The fund chairman expressed appreciation to all of the co-chair-men, captains and workers who participated in the drive. He pointed out that the success of the campaign is due to these workers who made a complete coverage of the community in soliciting money for the Community Fund. „ Art Burris, chairman of the (Continued on Pace Five)

Heads C. Os C. Louis Jacobs Jacobs Elected As * - • C. Os C. President Druggist Is Named President In 1958 Louis A. Jacobs, of the Holthouse Drug £O.O. was- elected president cf the Decatur Chamber of Commerce at the annual meeting of the board of directors of the city’s business organization Tuesday evening. The election was held during the Christmas dinner meeting of the directors, held at the Fairway Restaurant. Other new officers, who will assume their duties at the first meeting of the board in January, are: Ferris Bower, jeweler, and George Auer, manager of the Decatur plant of the General Electric Co., vice presidents, and Francis Wertzberger, of the Wertzberger Confectionery, treasurer. Jacobs will succeed Cliff Brewer, who has served as president for the past year, and will serve as chairman of the board. Other retiring officers are Robert Heller, board chairman; Tom Allwein and Joe Kaehr, vice presidents, and Ferris Bower, treasurer. Fred Kolter is the executive secretary and manager of the Chamber of Commerce. Other directors of the C. of C., in addition to the officers, «$£ Earl Fuhrman. Severin Schurger. Leo Seltenright, Tom Allwein. Dr. R. E. Allison, Glenn Mauller, Earl Sheets and George Thomas. 33 Graduates Here In Home Nursing Red Cross Planning Additional Classes Two classes in the home care of the sick and injured completed the training course Tuesday, with 33 graduates, Mrs. Mary Jane Miller, R.N., and Mrs. Helen M. Johnson, teachers, reported. The Red Cross classes have been conducted for the past few weeks on a weekly basis. Tuesday was the last meeting of the classes, and Jack Gordon, civil defense director, gave a short talk to both classes. He pointed out the part they will play in case of disasters. He also urged them to interest others. As least one person in every horrie should be trained in first aid care, he stressed. New classes in home nursing and first aid will begin after the first of the year. Those interested should contact the Red Cross office. Graduates of the afternoon class, taught by Mrs. Johnson, were Mrs. Alton Corson, Mrs. Clyde Gould, Miss Margaret Klickman, Mrs. Christina Hackman, Mrs. Margaret Gage, Mrs. Eileen Gage, Mrs. Agnes Lichtle, Mrs. Margaret Meyer. Mrs, Dorothy Alger, Mrs. Veda Smith, Mrs. Victoria Heimann, Mrs. , Robert Strickler, Mrs. Justine Geimer, Mrs. Charles Fuhrman, (Continued on Page Five)

Distribution Os Taxes Made By County Auditor Over $773,000 In Distribution Made To Taxing Units A total of $773,970.20 in tax money is now being distributed to various tax units throughout Adams county, county auditor Edward Jaberg announced today. This money includes the $761,353.75 ’jaid into the county treasury in general property tax assessments in November and $12,616.45 in bank taxes. The distributive amounts, as shown in Jaberg’s report, give $32,056.28 to the state, $78,960.21 to the county, and the remainder to the various townships, school corporations, city and town corporations, and publfc libraries. Hie civil city of Decatur receives $63,159.35 in the December distribution, Jaberg pointed out. To the Decatur school corporation goes $130,753.01 and the Decatur public library receives $8,737.79. Township shares include Blue ( Creek, $12,730.83; French, $835.88; Hartford, 518.10Q.65; Jefferson $14,394.93; Kirkland,’s9l6.B4; Monroe, $1,012.06; Preble, $17,755,90; Root $34,390.51; St. Mary’s, $21,885.13; Union, $14,440.52; Wabash, $45,246 - 17, and Washington, $1,623.45. Amounts going to other tax units are $105,711.24 to Adams Central school; $67,793.12 to Berne-French school; $23,578.88 to Berne civil; $4,396.73 to Berne public library; $3,922.58 to Geneva civil; $925.88 to Geneva library,-and $1,835.16 to Monroe civil. Distribution to the various county units shows welfare, $20,024.57; hospital, $2,002.47; hospital bond, (Continued on Page Five) Goodfellows Club Seeks Donations Less Fortunate Os City To Be Aided Mrs. Leland Smith, chairman of the Goodfellows club this year, issued a statement today expressing appreciation for those who assisted in making a success the popcorn sale at the Erie station last Saturday. Mrs. Smith said that members of Delta Theta Tau sorority, which sponsors the Goodfellows project annually, are grateful to officials of Decatur Catholic school for the use of the popcorn machine and to Girl Scouts Nancy Sharpe, Peggy McCammon, Ann Arnold, Judy Brodbeck and Karen Zimmerman, who helped sell the popcorn. i Proceeds from the sale of over < 400 boxes of pdfccorn will be add- i ed to the Goodfellows fund now ( being collected for the purpose j of assisting needy Decatur fami- ( ties at Christmas time. | Any person knowing of a family who might need help to bright- , en the Christmas holiday is in- , vited to contact Mrs. Cliff Brew- ? er. Sorority members conduct , investigations to determine the , need of famines but they rely on ( the help of the general public in locating these families. Donations to the Goodfellows 1 fund are still being sought, Mrs. Smith added, and contributions ; may be sent to Catherine Weidler j of Decatur route three. Donations may also be placed in ( Goodfellows cannisters which have been distributed throughout the business district. In addition to financial donations, the sorority is accepting contributions of toys in good condition. Toys may be taken to the Decatur fire station, where they will be sorted and distributed by sorority members. The money will be used to purchase additional toys and’ items for the food baskets which will be given to the needy families.

Rotary Speaker fli Kw , fl ■■■■’ flflr ■■ Clarence F. Ziner Rotarians Host To District Governor Clarence Ziner To Pay Official Visit The Decatur Rotary club will be host Thursday to Clarence Zin-, er, of this city, governor of the 654th district of Rotary International. Die occasion is governor’s official annual visit to the dub, which holds its weekly dinner meetings at 6:3C o’clock Thursday evenings at the Youth and/Community Center. Ziner, owner of the Culligan Soft Water “Service in this city, was elected as a district governor of Rotary for the 1957-58 fiscal year at the service club’s annual convenion in Lucerne, Switzerland, last May. Ziner, first Decatur man honored by election as district governor, has 39 Rotary clubs in Northern Indiana under his jurisdiction, each of which he visits at least once during his year in office. He is one of 249 district governors supervising the activities of more than 9,500 Rotary clubs which have a membership of 446,000 business and professional executives in 102 countries throughout the free world. Ziner is a member and past president of the Decatur club. A member of the First Presbyterian church, he has served on the board of deacons and at the present time is an elder in the church. Highly active for many years in civic ac(Coatinue'i cn Page Fiva) Valued Brochure On Decatur Published Decatur C. Os C. Publishes Brochure An attractive brochure, prepared under supervision of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce, relating the many advantages of bringing an industry to Decatur, is ready for distribution to all interested industries and a limited number will be sold to the general public. The brochure is entitled “Decatur, the Hub of Enterprise.” It contains an introduction by Fred E. Kolter, secretary and manager, a letter of greetings by Clifford E. Brewer, Chamber president, and a letter of invitation by Mayor Robert D. Cole. Interesting statistics pertaining to the city are contained in the following pages: churches, schools, recreational facilities and similar information which any industry needs when seeking a new location are described in full. Among those Chamber members who assisted in preparation of the facts and figures are Lowell Harper, Louis Jacobs, Severin Schurger, Glenn Hill, Herman Krueckeberg, M. J. Pryor and secretary Kolter. Leaves of the brochure can be removed and replaced by newer figures and others may be added. It is the most complete book concerning the city of Decatur, ever published.J - '

Demands Wage i Increases To ■ Bolster Buying Convention Rejects Wage-Freeze Plan, To Demand Increase CITY, N.J. (UP)— The AFL-CIO today demanded wage increases next year to bolster “inadequate consumer buying power and restore needed national economic growth.” Delegates to the AFL-CIO convention rejected wage-freeze proposals and said labor did not see any need now to extend the 40- ■ hour week. They applauded United Auto Workers’ President Walter Reuther, who said AFL-CIO unions have a “responsibility” not to “start a retreat" at the bargaining table next year. There was no dissent as the convention passed a resolution calling upon unions to negotiate "sizable wage increases” to offset effects of the “Slackening” econo--1 my. v Reuther gaid “unemployment jg > going to snowball” next year but . added that wage boosts would be one way of countering the econom5 daaiiae- • “Can’t Bargain Prices” > ’ Reuther said the nation was r troubled by failure to step up con- ’’ sumer income at the same rate ' as Ute increases in productive capacity. He rejected arguments t that wage boosts in the past trig--5 gered inflation. f “We’ve had inflation rigged by r a small group o /powerful corpora- . tions...rigging prices and ignoring the law of supply and demand,” ’ Reuther said. “You can’t bargain with corporations about prices.” He left no doubt his union would go after wage hikes. The Appeals Committee, mean--1 while, rejected a plea by the scan- ; dal-scarred Laundry Workers and > recommended their expulsion by s the convention. Ex-officials of that ! union were accused of welfare ; fund scandals. > The pay boost resolution said » that while labor would cooperate in the national defense effort, "no t need has been demonstrated for k any wage freeze or any nation. x wide extension of the statutory ( work week.” .... ; Key features of President Ei- ' senhower’s proposals to prevent ‘ union - management racketeering were blasted Tuesday by labor’s hierarchy, which claimed marked process in the AFL-ClO’s own anti-corruption drive. Meany ’Skeptical A “very skeptical ” George Meany, federation president, warned that some items in the administration labor package might be used .to put all union activity under government control. The dip in business activity makes it twice as important that ; unions get big pay hikes to beef . up consumer buying power, the (Continued on Page Five) BULLETIN i WASHINGTON (W — Unemployment in November rose by 700,00 persons to a total of t 3,200,000—the highest Novem- [ ber figure since 194# — the government reported today. Total civilian employment [ fell by 1,100,000 from the October mark to 64,900,000 — more than 300,000 below the : November, 1956, level.

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