Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 304, Decatur, Adams County, 27 December 1957 — Page 1

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SEASON’S GREETINGS REFLECTED— Ward Garnett, 13, spells out the season’s greetings on the iron lung’ mirror for twin brother Clyde in New York. Ward assembled a nativity scene as a Christmas present for his twin, stricken by polio 6% years ago. Clyde is cared for by the March of Dimes.

GOP Leaders Fear Defeat In 1958 Elections Republican Party Leaders Fearful Os * Congressional Loss By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Dec. 27 (UP)— No telling what the Republicans wanted for Christmas but there is no doubt about what the party needed most. The Republican Party needed a top flight political strategist, a political genius type. They are hard to come by. The Republican Party must, however, come by such a leader — or else! Or else refers to the 1958 Congressional elections and beyond that to the Presidential contest of 1960. There are politicians in Washington who keep not one but both ears to the ground. In this strange posture they have been listening to the grass roots for portents of next November’s Congressional polling. Republican ears-to-the ground men do not like what they hear. From what they hear they fear that the Republican Party will emerge from next year’s Congressional contest weaker than at any time, since the political upheaval of 1936. Remember Roosevelt That was the year in which FDR carried all but Maine and Vermont. The 75th Congress elected in 1936 consisted oft Senate: Democrats 75; Republicans 16: Progressives 1; FarmerLabor 2; Independent Republican 1. House: Democrats 333; Republicans 88; Progressives 8; FarmerLabor 5; Vacant 1. That was the low point for the Republican Party since the war between the states. The 85th Congress elected last year consisted of: Senate: Democrats 49; Republicans 47. House: Democrats 233; Republicans 200; Vacant. 2. Differences Pointed Up The consensus is that although the Republicans are not heading to a new Congressional low next November, they surely will take a bad beating. Thirty-two Senate seats will be up for grabs in 1958, eleven of them now Democratic and 21 Republican. All 435 members of the House must seek reelecflon or retire. There is a peculiar difference between the political outlook for Senate Republicans and what actually happened in the New Deal election triumphs of 1934 and 1936 which so humiliated the Grand Old Party. In 1934 and 1936 the voters cut down the flower of Republican conservatism. Republican candidates who survived those elections generally were politicians who latched onto FDR’s New Deal and promised mostly that they could do it better. Conservatives Listed The voters picked off such Republican Senators as these: Frederick C. Walcott (Conn.), Simeon Fess (Ohio), Hamilton F. Kean (N.J.), Arthur Robinson (Ind.), Roscod C. Patterson (Mo.), Felix Hebert (R.1.). and David A. Reed (Pa.). Patterson was succeeded by an unknown named Harry S. Truman. These defeated senators are gone and long forgotten but they once were among the shock trdops of the conservative GOP. Next year it probably will be a bit different i ■ < Os the 21 Republican senators whose terms are expiring, the experts generally agreed that only two could be absolute shoo-ins, (Ccntlnuad on PW Five)

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Judge Schoolfield To Answer Testimony Radio, TV Address Is Planned Tonight CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — (W — Judge Raulston Schoolfield, said today he will answer in a radio and television address testimony that implied he accepted bribes to quash indictments against 13 Chattanooga teamsters. He said his answer to these charges tonight will be “all-encom-passing” and “national in import.” ■ ./Schoolfield, 52-year-old criminal ccurt judge, and a politician with a lust —for — battle reputation, planned to go on local radio and television tonight to rebut the testimony. Witnesses told the Senate Rackets Committee that money changed hands to free teamster accused of using violence to spur an organized drive. “My guilt or innocence is not at stake,” - Schoolfield said, but he promised a formal statement that would be “pretty all-encompas-sing.” He indicated his speech also would deal with tentative efforts to disbar and impeach him. “What I have to say,” Schoolfield added, “is national in import.” Four days ago he promised to “call the names and places — no matter the concern or how high the places.” Schoolfield, a 1954 segregationist candidate for governor, made headlines earlier this month when Raymond Hixson, a Tennesee deputy fire marshal, testified there was “quite a bit of talk” that the judge was paid $18,500 to quash an indictment against the Chattanooga teamsters. The State Supreme Court overruled Schoolfield. But in a new trial he directed a verdict of acquittal for the defendants, who included Glenn Smith, president of Chattanooga Local 515. Color Television Planned In Japan TOKYO ((Pl — The Japanese government announced today it had given permission to two Tokyo television stations to begin experimental color telecasting, marking the debut of color TV in Japan. Breakins Reported Here This Morning - Jack E. Baumgardner, assistant manager of the Local Loan company, and Francis “Bud” Wertzberger reported to the police department this morning that a thief or thieves attempted to enter their places of business last night Entry was gained into the Local Loan company when the thieves broke a glass panel in the alley door, entered a rear room used by the Goodyear company as a storage room and broke a panel from the office door. A cash drawer containing approximately 75 pennies was apparently the only thing taken. Wertzberger called the police this morning when he opened the confectionery and found two windows in the rear of the building smashed. He stated that the attempted entry was evidently not completed as nothing seemed to be missing upon first check. Good Fellows Fund Previously Reported ------ $588.48 Gerber’s Super Market — 15.00 Mr. & Mrs. Wm. Klepper 5.00 In Memory of Bobby Lake 5.00 Daniel Highland 2.00 Change in Boxes - 9.14 Final Total $624.62

Proposes Tax Exemption On Education Cost Proposes Special Tax Exemption To Students' Parents WASHINGTON (UP)—A key House Republican today proposed a special tax exemption for parents of college students. He offered this as an alternative to federal scholarships, as proposed by President Eisenhower. “It would cost less and do more good,” Rep. Charles A. Halleck (R-Ind.) told a reporter. Halleck is a House leader with close White House connections and normally is a staunch administration supporter. House Democratic Whip Carl Albert (Okla.), in a separate ingrounds. Albert endorsed the terview, rejected the Halleck proscholarship plan. Albert said Halleck’s plan would help most those families who can and will send their youngsters to college without federal aid. He said families most in need aren’t paying enough federal taxes to get much benefit. Only in a "very, very few” cases, Albert added, would a special tax exemption make a difference between going to college and staying home. Th contrasting views of the two House leaders pointed up growing indications the President’s plan for scholarships and other federal aids for scientific study faces sharp controversy in the House and Senate. Many lawmakers oppose all federal aid to education and can be expected to fight scholarships or anything else that smacks of it. Federal aid directly to universities for added equipment -and plant may run into a squabble over racial segregation. Halleck’s tax exemption plan, especially with the high-level backing he can give ■ it, could draw wide support if controversy over these and other points imperilled the White House proposal. The administration p|an still is taking final shape. As of now it is expected to call for a federal outlay of 200 million to 300 million dollars yeary for aid in a variety of forms aimed primarily at producing more and better scientists in the race with Russia. Afro-Asian Parley On Communist Line Ask Halt On Tests Os Nuclear Weapons CAIRO (UP)— An unofficial "solidarity" meeting of delegates from 37 African and Asian nations today started preparing resolutions based on reports which voiced the Communist line on familiar cold war themes. The reports, introduced Thursday, demanded an unconditional hdlt to nuclear weapons tests. They scored western countries for such things as “imperialism” and “colonialism." Early committee sessions were expected to show whether the antiWest tenor of the reports would be approved or whether some delegations would try to bring the conference closer to the neutralist line set at the 1955 Bandung Conference. The conference assumed a pronounced leftist trend on the first day. Conference leaders refused to permit a three-man delegation of refugees from the Turkestan (Kazakh) Soviet province, now living in Turkey and the United States, to attend despite previous statements that all observers were welcome. Some of the delegates took positions that deviated in varying degrees from the policies voiced by their governments. There were no delegates from such anti-Communist bastions as thd Republic of Korea, Nationalist China, Turkey, South Viet Nam, Pakistan, Cambodia and The Philippines. T The Soviet Union, which was not represented at the official Bandung Conference, had 23 delegates here. Communist China had 45. Egypt, the host country, had 83 delegates. Given Life Sentence For Murdering Wife LOS ANGELES (W — L. Ewing Scott, 61-year-old self-styled investment counsellor, today faced life in prison for the murder of his wealthy wife almost three years ago. Jurors who convicted Scott of first-degree murder last Saturday on circumstantial evidence returned to court Thursday to set the penalty for the crime as provided under a new California law.

Decatur, Indiana, Friday, December 27, 1957

United States Planning Consulting With Allies On Reply To Bulganin

Ike's Fiscal Policy Scored By Economist Showed Willingness At Jeopardizing Security Os Nation CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (UP)-One of the nation’s leading economists said today that the Eisenhower administration’s fiscal policies this year showed a “willingness ... to jeopardize the security of the countryZ Prof. Sumner H. Slichter, Lamont University professor at Harvard, made the charge in an article to appear Saturday in Business Scope, a business newsletter published here. "It is clear that in 1957,” Slichter said, “the interest of the/administration in short-run stability of the price level was given precedence over the security of the country itself. Sees Information Withheld "In its efforts to hold down government spending, the administration was careful to keep from the people information concerning Russian technological progress reported by our intelligence- servSfiAter, regarded as a “businessman’s economist,” said administration "blunders in basic defense and economic policy made in 1957 do affect the long - range economic outlook, especially the long-run outlook for, prices.” “The willingness of the adminiistration to jeopardize the security of the country;” he said, “was, of course, by far the worst feature of administration policy. Calls Recession Inflationary “Had the administration been willing to place more emphasis on production and less emphasis on attempts to bring creeping inflation completely to a halt, the danger of future bottlenecks in production, when missiles and other new weapons are in production on a considerable scale, would tContinued on Page Five) Claude Summers Is Speaker At Rotary G. E. Engineer Is Speaker Thursday Claude Summers, an engineering graduate of Colorado University and manager of the Fort Wayne laboratory of the General Electric Co., was the guest speaker at Thursday’s meeting of the Rotary club at the Decatur Youth and Community Center. He discussed Russian technology. John Margerum was program chairman and president Robert Smith presided. __ Summers reported that six top G.E. scientists had been invited tc Moscow during this year. He quoted their reactiopa-to Avhat they had observed. “America has been somewhat complacent and has assumed that she had the world’s top scientists, but Sputnik brought a sudden awakening from that sense of false security. “Technical faculties are large ir Moscow, with one instructor for each 10 students. Students are paid to attend classes and are assured of good salaries on graduation There is a much greater spread in salaries between scientists and common labor in Russia than in America. “Russia has every important scientific article in all of the world’s magazines translated into Russian and made available to its students who are avid readers. “The Russian scientists would not discuss political doctrines with their American visitors, but each seemed interested in acquiring wealth which would seem counter to the usual Marxist philosophy. Income taxes are 13 per cent on d base figure, with no tax due on larger amounts. “Russia, China, India, and Brazil are considered as the areas in the world which can best use an industrialization program and (Continued on Pag* Five)

Double Unit Given To County Hospital Meshberger Company Gives Double Unit A double unit for the new addition to the Adams county memorial hospital has been given by the Meshberger Brothers Stone Corporation of Linn Grove, the hospital board. announced today. < The double unit is given in memory of Oscar Meshberger, and is valued at SI,OOO. Thirty of the 35 units in the new addition have now been given as memorial rooms. The hospital board will hold its annual end-of-the-year meeting this evening to allow all remaining 1957 bills, it was announced. Central Soya announced Monday a gift of $5,157 to the hospital to furnish a second floor room, a third floor day room, a nursery and a delivery room. The Adams county medical asSdciation, including the doctors of the county, gave $4,350 to furnish the fathers’ waiting room and the doctors’ and nurses’ rooms. Other double unit gifts, in addition to that of the Meshberger Brother Stone Corp., are those of the Central Soya Union, local 261 of the United Brewery Workers; the five daughters of Dr. Amos Reusser in honor of their father, and Helen Niblick Stoner and Jesepbine Niblick Edwards in honor of Mr. and Mrs. John Nibtick. Single unit donors include one by the board of county commissioners and county council; Tieeple Truck Lines, Inc., in memory of Mr. and Mrs. David F. Teeple; the 22 clubs and 636 members of the Adams county home demonstration clubs; in memory of Mrs. Emma Lankenau, R. N.; Mrs. Sara Kalver; Arthur D. Suttles, Sr.; Psi lota Xi; Tri Kappa; Delta Theta Tau; Beta Sigma Phi; Women of the Moose; Mr. and Mrs. William Schaefer; E. W. Busche; Mr. and Mra. W. A. Klepper; Mrs. C. C. Rayl and daughter, Mrs. C. K. Egeler; The Holthouse Drug Co.; The First State Bank of Decatur; Mr. and Mrs. Carl C. Pumphrey; the American Legion, Post 43: Decatur Lions club; and mental health chapter of Adams county. Lands Light Plane Without Injuries Pilot And Family Uninjured In Crash AINSWORTH, Neb. (UP) — Strong head winds helped a pilot and Ais family of three to crash their light plane_without serious injury to them tai a dramatic alr-to-earth rescue operation. Ted Nixon, of Tracy, Minn., suffered a cut forehead when he crashed his four - place Cessna along the Niobrara River, north of Long Pine, Neb., Thursday night. With him were his wife, Maris, and hfs daughters Gloria 2, and Kathy 1. En route from Redwood Falls, Minn., and overdue at Ainsworth. Nixon radioed Mary Taylor, the communications operator at Ainsworth airport, that he was lost. Responding to his distress call. Miss Taylor broadcast an omnivisual range beam for the flier to follow into Ainsworth in the dark. For 25 minutes she maintained radio contact with Nixon, then lost him when his altitude dropped too low for successful radio communication. The last thing she heard from Nixon was that he could see the airport beacon. , Don Higgins, manager of Ainsworth airport, flew his private plane in Nixon’s direction.. Nixon already had crashed on a sparsely settled sandhill area,, and drew attention to the wreckage of his plane by flashing its lights. Higgins returned and notified Rock County Sheriff Arthur Weber at Bassett, Neb., who dispatched an ambulance and a safety patrolman to the scene. About an hour after the crash. Nixon’s family was resting In Bassett.

Ike Heads For Gettysburg To Ready Message Works On State Os Union And Budget Plans For Congress WASHINGTON (UP)-President Eisenhower packs a heavy brief case and heads for the solitude of his Gettysburg farm today for a week of rest and work on his State of the Union and budget messages to Congress. The President and Mrs. Eisenhower were scheduled to leave by automobile early in the afternoon for their farm where they probably will remain unil Jan. 2. According to present schedule the President must be back in Washington by Jan. 3 when the new Civil Rights Commission holds its first formal meeting. The President has promised to participate in at least a portion of the meeting of the commission created by the last session of Congress. The President is taking a small staff with him to Gettysburg. This will be augmented during the coming week by administration officials journeying to Gettysburg for Conferences chiefly concerning the State < the Union message. « tress Secretary James C. Hagerty said work tai the State of the Uniop will be the President’s primary chore in Gettysburg. But he also will devote some time to his budget message for fiscal 1959, that starts next July 1, working in consultation with budget director Percival Brundage. Hagerty expects cabinet members to make quick trips to Gettysburg between now and the first of the year to confer with Eisenhower as he goes over preliminary drafts of the message. Doubt remained as to the manner in which the President will put his State of the Union message before Congress which reconvenes Jan. 7. Hagerty said no decision has been made on whether the President will send the message to Congress or deliver it in person. David Moore Named As Retail Chairman Chairman Os C. C. Retail Division a David E. Moore, manager of the Sears-Roebuck store, was elected as the chairman of the retail division of the Chamber of Commerce for the year 1958. Moore replaces Bob Lane as head in the annual election of officers. Other officers of the retail division for next year are: Kenneth Shannon, who replaces Frank Lybarger as vice-chairman; Thomas Garner was elected to replace Don Schmitt as secretary, and Dale Morrissey was re-elected to the position of treasurer. The elections were carried out through the mails, each member of the retail division being given a postcard on which to mark his -andidates. The postcards were mailed to Roy Stewart and Harold Niblick, who made the final tabu'ations and announced the winners. Fred E. Kolt#,, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, served as general chairman of the elections. The Chamber of Commerce will hold its industrial banquet at noon Monday, January 13. INDIANA WEATHER Cloudy and windy with showers tonight, probably beginning west portion late this afternoon. A little warmer most sections tonight. Saturday partly cloudy and turning colder. Low tonight 28 to 35 northwest, 33 to 40 southeast. High Saturday 30s northwest to 40s southeast. Sunset today 5:27 p.m. Sunrise Saturday 8:05 . a.m. Outlook for Sunday: Increasing cloudiness and warmer, followed by rain Sunday afternoon or night. Lows Saturday night 25 to 30. Highs Sunday in the 40s.

Emergency Surgery > Performed On Girl Father Relents In Religious Stand RICHMOND, Ind. (UP)—A tittle girl was in good condition today following an emergency appendectomy performed when her father relented in his'religious opposition to medical care. The father, Arthur Pippen, 40, had resisted for about three days • against pleas by authorities to r permit a physician to treat his ' daughter, Judy, 11, for acute appendicitis. Instead, Pippen, his family and 1 other members of the “Full Taberniftle of God” religious sect prayed almost continuously to save the life of the blonde, blueeyed girl, / Pippen was persuaded to permit the operation Thursday night when authorities instituted legal action to make Judy a ward of the court, which 'would pave the way for medical treatment. Earlier Thursday Pippen had allowed doctors to examine Judy at Reid Memorial Hospital. They warned Judy's appendix might burst within hours and she might not live through the night Despite the prediction, Pippen insisted on taking the girl back home to resume praying for her life. But Pippen stood firm in his beliefs until Sheriff Edward Cordell arrived with a Sammons. The summons ordered Pippen, a foundry worker, to appear in court today for a hearing on the girl’s custody. “Then the law wants to take her to the hospital?" Pippen asked the sheriff. “It does,” Cordell replied. "My church preaches that we must obey the law,” the father said. Word was flashed immediately to the hospital and Dr. P. S. Johnson was given 10 minutes to get ready for the surgery. The operation lasted more than one-half hour. Fresh Rains Threat I To Southern Illinois ; z . 40 Families Forced To Evacuate Homes By UNITED PRESS Fresh rains today threatened to pelt water-logged southern Illinois where heavy rainfalls already forced 40 families to abandon their homes in the path of flooded waterways. A small corps of trucks and motorboats carried families encamped on the banks of the Little Wabash River in southeastern Illinois to safety Thursday and early today. Fed by heavy rains which followed recent off-season tornadoes into the area, the river was expected to crest at 34 feet today. Authorities said the biggest diffL«filty confronting the evacuees was getting their livestock to safety. _ Farther north on the Little Wabash, only three families were forced to leave their homes by minor flooding. Meanwhile, at Murphysboro, 111., hardest hit by the late December tornadoes, the Big Muddy cember tornadoes, the Big Muddy River dropped another 4 inches. No families were forced to evacuate the .area. The U.S. Weather Bureau reported, however, „that new rains could be expected throughout southern Illinois late today. In the rest of the nation, a latecoming winter began to show first signs of digging in. Cool air moved in behind a disturbance in the Northeast Thursday night, causing lower temperatures over the entire nation from the Mississippi Valley to the Atlantic Seaboard. A steady fall of rain in the Northeast left amounts ranging from 1 to 2% inches during a 24-hour period in parts of central New England. Snow flurries whipped along the new cold front from the upper Ohio Valley to high points in Pennsylvania and New York. DUst clouds hovered over most of the Central Plains region, caused by warm southerly winds, some reaching speeds of 55 miles per hour. ‘

Moves To Back Up Agreements At NATO Meet , ■ A Long Consultations i With Allies Before Answer To Proposal ‘ WASHINGTON (UP)-The Unit- , ed States, moving to back up ’ agreements at the Paris conference, today planned long consulta- . tions with its allies before reply- ‘ ing to Soviet Premier Nikolai But ’ ganin’s •‘peace” proposals. ’ In a second step to carry out ’ Paris decisions, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles scheduled a conference with 20 Latin American ' ambassadors today to seek closer , ties between the Atlantic Pact and other regional defense groups. At the recent Paris North Atlantic Treaty Organization . (NATO) “summit” meeting, the 15 member nations agreed to set up closer consulting methods to ; avoid policy differences and clashes such as the Suez Canal split.These methods, to be followed in drafting the U.S. reply to Bulganin, will probably delay the reply to Moscow until mid-January. The reply, when sent, will likely reject Bulganin’s proposal for an EastWest heads-of-government conference to try to settle world ills. The United States is now drafting its reply to Bulganin. When ready it will be sent to the permanent NATO Council in Paris tor study and suggestions at its meeting early next month. This country’s draft, and those of other natibns that received similar Bulganin letters, then will be returned to their home governments for final drafting and transmission to the Kremlin. This is a more extended consul- '■ tation process than normally fol- ; lowed in such international diplomatic exchanges. It presumably is intended to meet criticism by NATO members that this country, and other members as well, failed to take into account the views of all the allies in-dealing with Russia and other crucial issues. Four Os Family Are Found Dead In Home Murder And Suicide Theory Investigated ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (UP)— Police pressed an investigation today to determine if the fourmember family of a prominent Methodist minister, investment counselor and foundation president died in a pre-Christmas murdersuicide. The body of Dr. H. Sanford Williams, 48, was found late Thursday afternoon in his bathroom. a .45-caliber pistol on the floor nearby. His wife was found shot to death in a bedroom and his two young sons were dead of bullet wounds in another bedroom. A medical examiner said the deaths apparently occurred some time Monday and tests were begun to determine if any of the four had fired the pistol. Police were summoned to the fashionable Bahama Beach home at 4:30 p.m. Thursday when business associates of Williams, their knocks unanswered, peered through a window and saw one of the bodies. Authorities said it appeared the four had been dead several days. Williams had been president of the National Retirement Foundation, devoted to the health and welfare of the aged, since last February. Previously, he was an investment counselor here since. 1954 and earlier had been pastor of several North Carolina Methodist churches. • Samuel William Fuller, foundation vice president, said he talked to Williams Monday night and that he appeared to be despondent. Williams came here in 1954 and became an investment counselor after qualifying with the New York stock exchange. He married the former Alice Wenzlick in 1940. They had two sons, Leonard, 10, and Clarence, 9. OonUnuM oa *•<• Flv») #

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