Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 303, Decatur, Adams County, 26 December 1957 — Page 1

Vol. LV. No. 303.

a ■KLa. 'Mt/ f OUT OF SADNESS, JOT— Christmas loomed tragic but is taking a kinder turn for the Butner children —saucer-eyed Louise, 4 months, and sleeping Martin, 3, being cared for by policewoman Evelyn Emru in New York City. Their mother, British war bride Mrs. Brenda Butner, 25, deserted by her husband a few days ago, and penniless, felt she could not face Christmas. She turned on the gas in her tiny apartment after putting the children outside. Neighbors discovered wailing Martin, broke in and found the mother in time to save her life.

Ike Working . On State Os Union Message Largest Military Budget In Time Os Peace Is Expected WASHINGTON (UP) - President Eisenhower pushed aside the joys of Christmas today to work on the missile - geared legislative program he will hand Congress In two weeks. The Chief Executive’s State of the Union message Jan. 9 is expected to call for the largest military budget in the nation’s peacetime history to meet the Soviet ■«pace-age threat. No appointments were ..announced for the President'by the White house, indicating his day was free to spend possibly conferring with aides on the legislative recommendations. Weekend in Gettysburg The President and Mrs. Eisenhower were expected to motor to--morrow or the next day to their farm at Gettysburg for the weekend. Defense Department officials and the President have indicated the stepped-up missile effort will mean an unprecedented peacetime military budget of about 40 billion dollars. This compares with $84,500,000,000 budgeted in 1945 — the largest amount for a wartime military spending. Pentagon sources said the bulk of the next defense budget already was at the printers. But they said this did not mean changes couldn’t still be made. The present defense effort is expected to cost 39 billion dollars for the fiscal year ending June 30—one billion dollars more than was budgeted by the last congress. ' Plans 2 Billion Boost • The President told Congressional leaders at a White House conference earlier this month he intended to boost military spending by about two billion dollars —all bit killing anv hopes for a tax cut and meaning possibly a red um buuget. The weighty problems of reshaping the nation’s defense didn't keep the President from enjoying a quiet but merry Christmas with his family Wednesday at the House. • , He and Mrs. Eisenhower, who (Continued on Page Five) Receives Word Os Death Os Nephew Mrs. John T. Myers has received word of the death of a nephew, Maxwell H. Hower, 55, of Detroit, Mich., who died Tuesday evening. A son of the late D. Ervin Hower, he is survived by his mother, Mrs. Harriet Hower, his wife and two ~ children. Funeral services were conducted today in Detroit. One Christmas Baby Is Born At Hospital Santa, assisted by Mr. Stork, made a special gift to the Amos N. Eichers of near Geneva Christ- ' mas day. Mr. and Mrs. Eicher became thd parents an eight pound, one ounce son, at 2:10 o’clock Christmas morn at the Adams county memorial hospital. The little boy is the sixth child in the family. Mr. and Mrs. Donald Liechty, of 1316 High street, were the only ‘ couple blessed with a Christmas —_ e v e child, bom at the local hospital at 4:25 p.m. Tuesday. Their new daughter weighed eight pounds and four ounces.

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Waiting Period For Marriages In State New Law Effective In Indiana Jan. 1 * Couples planning to marry in Indiana after January 1, 1958, will do so under a new ‘’set of rules” passed by the 1957 general assembly. Chief among the changes are: a physician's examination and blood test by a physician who holds an unlimited license to practice medicine in the state of Indiana; a requirement that the marriage license be obtained in the home county of the bride or groom if either (or both) are residents of Indiana: a fee of $5 for the marriage license; a threeday waiting period and proof of age when making the application. Each applicant for a marriage license will be required to have a physician's examination and a blood test. This was also required under the old law, but the provision that has been changed is that the examination must be performed by a physician who holds an unlimited license to practice madicine in the state of Indiana. The blooG tests must be performed in laboratories approved by the Indiana state board of health. In Indiana, these are certain private or hospital laboratories that have met stipulated requirements and are listed in the official list of approved laboratories furnished to county clerks or to physicians. Also approved are the laboratories of all state health departments, armed forces, and the U. S. public health service. If the legal residence of either the bride or the groom is in Indiana, the marriage license must be obtained in the home county of one or the other. Out of state couples must secure their licenses from the clerk of the circuit court in the Indiana county where the ceremony is to be performed. , Since the county clerk must have satisfactory proof of the age of the applicants, couples should take with them copies of their birth certificates, a judicial decree establishing the date and place of birth, or other written evidence. If either of the parties is under age, consent of the parents must be obtained before the license can be issued. Both parents, if living and available, must give their written consent. The new fee for a marriage license will be $5 and this must be paid to the clerk of the circuit court at tiie time application is made. Three full days must then elapse between the time the application is made and the issuance of the license. Sundays and holidays will be included in the computation»of the waiting period. The Judge may dispense with the threevday waiting period by written orddr, if good and sufficient reason can be shown, and if the court reels it is in the interest of all persons concerned. »Additional information can be obtained at the county clerk’s office in the court house.

INDIANA WEATHER Fair south, clearing north, colder tonight. Friday increasing cloudiness and warmer with a chance of rain extreme south portion by night. Low tonight 24-32, high Friday in upper 40s north, low 50s south. Sunset 5:27 p.m. Sunrise Frl. 8:04 a.m. Outlook for Saturday Rain ending and turning colder Low Friday night in the 30s. High Saturday in the 40s.

New Yorkers Threatened By Transit Tieup Face Threat Os Two More Transportation Strikes In New York NEW YORK (UP)—New Yorkers harried by two strike-caused transportation tieups within a month today faced the threat of two more transit walkouts that coqld all but send the city’s millions walking to work. With commuter tempers barely simmered down from a Christmas Eve rush hour strike by trainmen on the Long Island Railroad, the Subway Motormen’s Benevolent Association Wednesday night hinted it would strike if the city signs a new contract with the rival Transport Workers Union. The MBA, which struck for eight days earlier this month for the right to be recognized as its own bargaining agent, warned in telegrams to Mayor Robert F. Wagner and the City Transit Authority that the city would “be responsible for the consequences and the public will know where the blame lies” if the contract is signed with Michael J. Quill's TWU. The new warning came on the eve’of negotiations aimed at heading off a threatened New Year’s Eve walkout by Quill’s 31,000 Transit Authority Workers. The Twu leader also has threatened a New Year’s Day shutdown of eight big privately owned bus lines manned by his union. I City and union officials scheduled a meeting with Wagner todays t 10:45 a.m, e.s.t. at City Hall to seek a formula for averting the New Year’s Eve subway walkout. Actual contract negotiations begin later at the offices of City Labor Commissioner Harold A. Felix. The TWU is asking for a package increase of 65 cents an hour and other benefits. This is over the protest of the motormen, who warned that a Quill - negotiated contract would be ’’illegal.-”

Mrs. Motrona Gorb Is Taken By Death Funeral Services Saturday Morning Mrs. Motrona Gorb, 69, a displaced person from the Ukraine, died at 11:50 o’clock Tuesday night at the home of her son, Paul Gorb, Monroe route one. She had been ill of cancer for the past year. . Mrs. Gorb, her husband, Max, and son came to the United States in 1948 and had lived near Monroe since 1950. Her husband died a few years ago. Mrs. Gorb was born in the Ukraine Aug. 9, 1888, a daughter of John and Paraskovey Zawerncha, and was married to Max Gorb in 1912. She was a member of the Greek Orthodox church. Surviving in addition to the son is one grandchild. Funeral services will be conducted at 11 o’clock Saturday morning at the Zwick funeral home, the Rev. Alexander Popof, of Fort Wayne, officiating. Burial will be in the Ray cemetery near Monroe. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o’clock this evening until time of the services.

», Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, December 26, 1957

Nation’s Traffic Toll On Christmas Holiday Goes Above 200 Mark • w

Afro-Asian Parley Opens In Cairo Today Many Pro-Western States Missing As Conference Opens By UNITED PRESS A Christmas storm that carried considerable rain but little snow into the Midwest pushed eastward today, and weathermen warned of possible hazardous driving conditions in the higher elevations of New York and Pennsylvania. Strong northwesterly winds up to 45 m.p.h. whipped the upper Mississippi Valley and Great Lakes Wednesday night and today in the wake of the storm system. Precipitation, mostly rain but with some snow in northern Minnesota and the upper Great Lakes, continued during the night from the Gulf Coast north to Hudson Bay. Weathermen mixture of rain and freezing rain in the mountain regions of New York and Pennsylvania were expected to glaze highways overnight, making driving dangerous. Fog combined with light rain over the southern Appalachians. Thef storm dumped up to one- i half meh of rain during the night at numerous points in the upper Ohio River Valley, while Charleston and Anderson, S.C., both reported about three-fourths inch. In the Pacific Northwest, another storm off the British Columbia coast brought high winds averaging 40 to 50 miles an hour from the Washington-Oregon coast to the northern Rockies. Rainfall ranging from one-half to one inch doused the coastal region, and about five more inches of snbw were added to the higher mountain passes, boosting the accumulations to five to seven feet.

Search For Missing Crewmen Abandoned Pacific Patrolled By Lone Destroyer HONOLULU (UP)—A lone Navy destroyer patrolled, the Pacific today on the million to one chance of finding another survivor froth a Navy radar plane that crashed off northern Oahu Island. A rescue boat earlier found four survivors of the 23 men aboard the plane, which crashed Monday. The boat also recovered two bodies. That left 17 men presumed killed. Rear Adm. Neil K. Dietrich commander of the Honolulu sea frontier, ordered the search discontinued at sundown Wednesday. “A considerable amount of small wreckage was recovered, but there has been no sign of additional survivors," Dietrich said. “We are of the opinion that all possibility of the existence of additional survivors has been exhausted and nothing can be gained by a further large scale search. Nevertheless, he ordered the destroyer to stay in the area just in case another survivor or two might be still struggling to stay afloat or othef bodies could be recovered. „ , The seven million dollar radar plane was on a routine training flight when it suddenly lost altitude and crashed into the sea. The four survivors were Cmdr. Guy Howard, 41, Oakland, Calif. Lt <jg> Thomas Kline, 25, East Williston, N. D.; Lt. (jg) Richard (Continued on Page Five) State Official Dies From Heart Attack INDIANAPOLIS (W — Charles L. Willson, 42, a deputy Indiana Attorney General,, was found dead in his near-downtown apartment Wednesday. A physician said Willson. attached to the state highway department, apparently died, of a heart attack. He was a graduate of the Indiana University Law school.

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Ike-Dulles Telecast Is Scored By Truman Former President Bored With Dulles NEW YORK (UP) — Former President Harry S. Truman said today that President Eisenhower and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles’ telecast to the nation Monday night was “a lot of gobbledygook.” *The show was fixed up by BBD&O,” Truman said, referring to a New York advertising company which has been employed by the Republican Party, “and they didn’t do a very good job. “BBD&O—that’s Bunko, bull, deceit and obfuscation,” Truman skid. The firm’s proper formal name is Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn Inc. Bored With Dulles The former President, who had refused until today to comment on the President’s report to the nation, made his statements during a t 15-minute morning walk in the rain from the Hotel Carlyle where ,he and Mrs. Truman are staying during a Christmas visit with their daughter and grandson.“I think I was just about as thoroughly bored with Mr. Dulles as the President appeared to be,’’ Tfuman said. “It was nothing new at all. There was no statement of policy to be pursued tormaet the and it sounded a damn sight worse when he said it than if you read it.” When he was asked later if there were any Christmas presents he might wish to give to persons in government today, he said: “I would like to get Mr. Dulles a good college dictionary so he can use the English language so that we can all understand him.” There was one point in which the former President appeared in full agreement with Eisenhower and Dulles. “I have no faith in any Russian peace offers,” he said. But he indicated he was disappointed in th® North Atlantic freaty Organization meeting on which the President reported. He said he understood it had been planned to “reestablish agree(Continued cn Paste Five)

Law Firm Hired In Township Line Case Fort Wayne Firm To Assist At Hearing Monroe township has hired the firm of Barrett, Barrett, and McNagny, of Fort Wayne< to assist Muselman in their preparation for the supreme court hearing on the Wabash-Monroe township line case, it was learned today, J. A. Bruggeman, of the firm, has informed Custer & Smith that he will appear for the defendants. There are two co-defendants in the case, county auditor Edward F. Jaberg. and Monroe township, represented by trustee Sylvan Sprunger. The county attorney will represent the auditor. The plaintiff, L. A. “Gus” Maim, representing Wabash township, now has 30 days in which to submit his brief or summary of the case. The defense is then given 30 days to file an answer. The plaintiff is then allowed to file a reply brief. Finally the case will be heard. It will probably be at least three or four months before the case'is actually heard by the supreme court. The case was filed when the Wabash townshop trustee discovered that each year the city of Berne expanded, annexing more land, the auditor’s office erroneously entered the land in the Monroe township book, allowing the land to be taxed in Monroe, ratherthan Wabash townshop. Mann, through his attorneys, filed a madamus suit against the county auditor, asking film to correct the books. Judge Myles F. Parrish ordered the auditor to prepare the books correctly in the future, but held against Mann, stating that he filed the wrong sort of suit to remedy the present situation.

Gaillard Calls Cabinet Into Session Today Determine Reply To Latest Peace Feeler From Soviet Russia PARIS (UP)—Premier Felix Gaillard summoned his cabinet into session today to determine France’s reply to the latest Soviet “peace” feelers. Informed sources would not rule out the possibility that France would decide to hold separate talks with Russia. These sources said many of the ministers feel France and the other 14 NATO nations should explore fully any possibility of direct bilateral negotiations with the Soviets. The ministers, according to the sources, feel such negotiations could not be harmful and might ease international tensions. It is the consensus of these political sources that the French reply would be fairly receptive to the possibility of France-Soviet talks. In addition to drafting the reply to Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin’s pre-NATO conference message, the cabinet also is taking up: /?. question of separate negotiations with the United States on the establishment of intermediate range missile launching sites in France. —The knotty problem of constitutional reform. —The NATO conference.

The meeting is the first full cabinet session since the NATO “summit" conference last week.

Holiday Fires Kill Three In Indiana Two Men Burned To Death Near Warsaw By UNITED PRESS Two • Christmas Day fires claimed three lives in Indiana. Two Kosciusko County men were burned to death and a Peru woman died in a fire blamed on a cigarette. William Myers, 52, and Jack Kitson, 28. were killed in a blaze at a home in the Dewart Lake area northeast of Warsaw. Authorities said Myers roused Kitson’s wife and she carried two of her children, aged two years and five months, from the burning' home and led a third child by the hand. Myers was reported to have been outside of the flaming onestory, ranch-style home at one time, but apparently went back in to search for Kitson. Myers’ body was found in a hallway a bedroom. Kitson’s body was found later in front of a fireplace. Mrs. Kitson said she was under the impression she had awakened her husband. The cause of the blaze was undetermined. Mrs. Irene Weis, about 60, burned and suffocated in her Peru home. Authorities said she apparently fell asleep in a chair while smoking while her husband and two stepchildren were sleeping upstairs. Damage to the home was slight. Two New Polio Cases Reported In Indiana INDIANAPOLIS ffl — Two more polio cases last week boosted Indiana’s 1957 total to 160, the Indiana State Board of Health reported today. One new case each was reported from Lake and Marion counties. The latter leads with 19 cases so far this year, one more than Allen county and three more than Lake. Vigo county has reported 14 cases thus far. ’ Eight deaths and 160 cases compared with 18 fatalities and 410 cases in the corresponding period last year, the health board said.

Hoosier Highways Take Accident Toll Rain Turns Roads into Death Traps By UNITED PRESS At least nine persons were killed on streets and highways in Indiana during the 30-hour Christmas holiday period. Most of them met death on the holiday Itself when widespread rain made driving treacherous. Four other persons were killed in two accidents Tuesday afternoon only a few hours before the official count began at 6 p.m. At least five of the seven deaths Wednesday were blamed on slippery roads and another was a hit-and-run accident. Five of the seven persons killed Wednesday died in separate acciderfts. Two persons were killed in a two-car accident three miles south of Montpelier on Ind. 303. State Police said Winifred Nunn, 53, Pleasant Ridge, Ky., and his daughter, Wanda Jean, 23, were killed when their car skidded across the center line into the path of an oncoming car. Nunn was driving a car carrying Wanda Jean and two other daughters. The other car was driven by Mark Gietzel, 18, Lansing, Mich. Five persons were injured in the crash. Gottieib Essig, 47. Fort Wayne, was killed when a fat driven by Hansel Vance, 36, Uniondale, skidded after passing another car on three-lane Ind. 3. Essig’s car and the Vance car met head-on. Plve also were injured in that smash-up. Edward Kuncl, 3, Macy, was killed when a car driven by his father, Donald, 25, hit a slippery spot on U.S. 30 in LaPorte County east of Wanatah. The Kuncl car was hit broadside by an oncoming car driven by Ivan Lozier, 24, Crown Point. Clarence Kooy, 17, DeMotte, was killed when his car hit the engine of an eastbound New York Central Railroad train about one mile from his home in Jasper County. The blacktop county road was wet when Kooy’s car rammed the locomotive and knocked it off the track. Also Tuesday night, Warren Franklin Bock, 36, Bloomfield, was killed in his hometown when his automobile went out of control hurtled a stone wall and struck a (Continued on Page Five)

300 Here Reserve Special Licenses 1958 License Plates On Sale January 2 About 300 1958 Adams county license plate numbers have already been reserved, representing everything from army serial numbers to birth dates, Mrs. LaVelle Death, local license bureau manager, said today. Persons wanting numbers for special reasons should apply and pay the special fee of 50 cents before Dec. 30, Mrs. Death added. License plate JA 1 will again go to Cal F. (Smoke) Peterson. Republican county chairman Harry (Peck) Essex will have JA 1896, his birth year. Any person, regardless of his politics, may apply for the special plates, Mrs. Death stated. The plates will go on sale Jan. 2, and must be purchased before March 1. Everyone, regardless of age, must have a tax receipt before obtaining a license, Mrs. Death pointed out. Business for 1957 will close officially Dec. 27, but the office will, of course, be open that day. It will be closed, however, on Dec. 31, for inventory, to prepare for sale Jan. 2. People who apply for their driver’s license who are over 35 years of age must now take a written exam and an eye test, Mrs. Death added. Booklets on driving are available for those who wish to brush up on the law before taking the tests, which include sign identification. No practical test is required, except for new drivers.

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Short Holiday Is Marred By Traffic Toll At Least 54 Other [ Persons In Violent Deaths Over Holiday By UNITED PRESS i A short but tragic Christmas - holiday ended with a nationwide ! traffic death toll that topped the 200 mark. ’ The total was times as great ■ as the normal toll for a non-holi- ’ day Wednesday in December. . Ned H. Dearborn, president of the National Safety Council, said that “there must be a better way to celebrate Christmas oa the J highways." The council had estimated that ' only 180 persons would be killed , ■ in Christmas traffic. “We can only hope that the I shock of this toll will bring about i sober thinking that may hold the new year holiday toll down to a I new low,” Dearborn said. At 9:30 a.m. Thursday, the United Press had counted 212 traffic deaths between hours st fi'-p.nk' ■ Tuesday and midnight Wednesday. At least 27 persons were killed in fires and 27 in miscellaneous accidents for an overall total of 267. Ohio led the nation in traffic i deaths with 26. New York had 11 deaths, Michigan and California . had 12 each, and Washington and Oklahoma had 10 each. i The city of Chicago reported no . deaths for the period. , Two of the worst holiday high- ■ way wrecks killed four persons • each. They Were a train-car crash ! at Bradford, Ohio and a two-car , collision near Tacoma, Wash. Ohio also was the scene of fire , tragedy when four children burned ? ! to death in a blaze that destroyed : their home while their mother ! was in Indiana to attend her son’s • wedding. A mother and her two young ’ children burned to death at Quincy, Mass., when an oil stove ex<Continued on Paca Five) Christmas Storm Pushing Eastward Considerable Rain In Midwest Area CAIRO <UPJ—The largest AfroAsian meeting since the Bandung Conference of 1955 opened here today. This one was neither strictly neutral nor official Many pro-western states were" missing from the group of 40 nations which sent representatives, and the internal composition of many delegations was clearly • slanted to the left. There were delegates here from the Soviet Union and from Mongolia, neither of which was represented at Bandung. There were no diegates from pro -western Turkey, Pakistan, Cambodia, South Viet Nam and the Philippines. Conference organizers, some of whom were openly disappointed at absence ,of any pro-western groups to counterbalance the Communist delegations, frankly admitted the conference could not be described as "neutral.” They also stressed the Cairo meeting was strictly unofficial and not in any way connected with the governments or j official views of the Bandung bloc. The more than 400 delegates were brought here by the “peoples Afro-Asian solidarity conference” which was formed to mobilize Afro-Asian public opinion into a united, cohesive force. The African half of the two continent bloc was more heavily represented here. This was the reverse at Bandung. Most observers believed at least two things of real significance would emerge from the meeting —a strong move to muster AfroAsian pressure to end the colonial era in Africa and the emergence of Egypt as the undisputed leader of the African bloc.