Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 307, Decatur, Adams County, 31 December 1957 — Page 1

Vol. LV. No. 307.

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Wilson Denies Asking Cutin Defense Funds Former Secretary State Eisenhower Overawed Request DETROIT (UP)— Former Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson laid today President Eisenhower overruled his request for a "considerable” increase in military spending a year ago and chopped it down before submitting the budget to Congress. At the same time Wilson hung the label "Monday morning quarterbacks” on critics who claim the United States was caught napping in the missile race with Russia. Wilson, 67, who stepped down from the Defense Department post late this year, said Eisenhower trimmedhls budget request before submitting it to Congress because h believed the economy-minded congressmen would not go along with it. "His prediction was right, too, bcause they cut the budget from 38.5 billion dollars down to 36 before they were through,” Wilson said. He declined to say what his estimate of the needs for defense spending were before the President cut it, but he said “it was closer to 40 (billion dollars) than it was to 38.5.” The President said "he didn’t know where, to get the $38,500,000,000 and he didn’t,” Wilson said. He added that he accepted the President’s judgment because "basically, I’m a team player; in a big organization and when it comes to the last five per cent one way or the other, I figure it's up to the President.” "A lot of people think I was the budget-cutter, that I put balancing the budget ahead of the country—but that’s a lot of poppycock," Wilson said. “It was not my decision to cut defense spending." The former General Motors Corp, president said the allotment for the military spending approved by Congress last year "might have been larger” if the President had asked for more. But at the same time he blasted congressmen for not heeding the recommendations of Pentagon ofContlnuea or> INDIANA WEATHER Rain south and central and rain or x snow extreme north, mixed at times with freezing rain or sleet changing to snow over most of state late this afternoon and early tonight, possibly accumulating 2 to 4 inches north portion before ending tonight. Colder tonight. Wednesday mostly sunny, but colder. Possibly a few ’ snow flurries near Lake Michigan. Low £ , tonight 15-22 north, 20-25 south. High Wednesday 25-32 north, SO--38 south. Sunset today 5:30 p.m. Sunrise Wednesday 8:06 a. m. Outlook for Thursday: Partly cloudy to cloudy north with some snow flurries, partly cloudy to fair south. Continued cold. Lows Wednesday night 15-24. Highs Thursday 27-36.

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Exchange Student Lions Club Speaker Ken Eliasson Is Speaker Last Night Ken Eliasson, Decatur high school senior exchange student from Gothenburg, Sweden, compared life in Sweden with life in the United States for the Decatur Lions club Monday night. The popular Swedish youth, who is staying with Dr. and Mrs. Harry H. Hebble during his year of studies here under sponsorship of the Decatur Rotary club, was introduced by program chairman H. H. Krueckeberg. Eliasson explained that when he left Sweden his friends warned him that America was a country of flattop haircuts, chewing gum, and flashy cars. He found, he admitted, that this was true, but that it is also a land of kindness, hospitality, generous people, and Democracy. ....... _ . wAile th ere are many differences, he continued, they are quite minor when compared with the similarities between the two peoples. Sweden is a little larger than 'California, with about 7 million neople, the same as Kentucky and Indiana combined. About 54 percent of the country is forest land, and 96,000 lakes dot the peninsula, which is surrounded by the salty Baltic sea and gulf of Bothnia, and the Skagerrak and Kattergat. Timber and fishing naturally are the principal industries. The Swedish people are much like Americans, but certain special circumstances make them slightly different in certain ways. While the Swedes have the highest standard of living in Europe, they do not have the many big cars and television sets that the Americans enjoy. About 27 per cent of a Swedish person’s income goes for taxes, and of this about one-third goes for special social advantages. School for Swedish youths means free noon meals, free dental care, and many other advantages. Even in college the only cost is about S2O a year tuition and books. Free medical care throughout life is a Swedish institution? and an old age pension for everyone over 67 years of age is also included. Sweden has had a socialist government under its limited monarchy for many years. 4 There is a big difference in the school systems, much jnore than in family life, Eliasson said. In his school in Sweden there were 1300 students, and only five of them had automobiles, as compared with many, many more in the Decatur high school, which is much smaller. Autos are very expensive to buy in Sweden, and gasoline costs 50 cents a gallon. A driver's license also costs aboyt SSO a year. Auto rides, television, and too much food tends to soften a person living in America as compared with a European, Eliasson confirmed, stating that he has gained 10 pounds here. Although Eliasson will graduate from Deca,tur high school this spring, when he returns to. “high (Continued on Page Five 1 )

No Intention By Eisenhower To Resign Post Eisenhower Sees No Need To Resign From Presidency GETTYSBURG, Pa. .UP)—President Eisenhower has no intention of resigning. He doesn’t even think in such terms these days. He sees no reason why he should resign. .As far as his physical condition is concerned he feels more than adequate for the job. His doctors concur in this confidence today. Eisenhower does not regard himself as a “part-time president" any more than the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt regarded himself -as part-time became of his frequent weekends In Hyde Park, N.Y., or former President Truman and his fondness for week ends on the White House yacht or long holidays in Key West, Fla. Such is the basic philosophy of the current Chief Executive as he is pelted, largely by Democrats and to a lesser degree by members of his own party, for not stepping out of office because of recurrent illnesses and frequent absences from his White House desk. The United Press is able to report the President’s attitude after long talks with some of his closer friends and administration associates who are in frequent if not daily contact with him. The President’s feelings could change with a heart flutter, but today he does not brood or think of himself as a sick man. On the contrary he is restive when work or bad weather in chill Gettysburg prevent him from getting out in the open and riding or striding around his farnA The latest talk of resignation started with a Sunday night statement by Chairman Emanuel Celler (D-N.Y.) Os the House Judiciary Committee. Celler suggested that the President resign temporarily if he continues to be what the congressman called “president in name only.” * o The President regards this as so much politics and is not particularly nettled by such statements. There have been many similar suggestions since the President suffered a mild stroke last Nov. 25. New Indiana Laws Effective Jan. 1 INDIANAPOLIS — (ffl — Several new Indiana laws enacted by the 1957 Legislature go into effect on New Year’s Day. Included are several laws eliminating most fees paid to county officials and subsisting uniform salary schedules. Other new Ihws include one outlawing common law marriages and another prohibiting fishing with nets in Indiana except in Lake Michigan and the Wabash River where it forms the IndianaIllinois boundary.

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Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday. December 31, 1957

To Submit Higher But Balanced Budget For Congress Next Year

Transit Strike Threat Ended For New York Contract Package Acceptance Ends Threat Os Strike NEW YORK (UP)—Michael J. Quill’s Transport Workers Union ended today its threat of a New Year’s Eve subway and bus strike by accepting a 32% cent-an-hour contract package designed to head off transit-labor trouble for at least two years. The agreement will cost the city an estimated $29,250,000. The settlement was announced early this morning after more than seven hours of negotiations at Cit Hall. Mgyor Robert F. Wagner had called in an eight man citizens committee of business leaders and labor officials to break a deadlock between the AFL-CIO union and the City Transit Authority. ' Transit Authority Chairman Charles Patterson said the agreement would not result in a subway or bus fare increase this year because the authority has $24,300,000 set aside to help cover the .package increase. But he .said he could give no assurance that the fare could be held down to 15 cents in 1959. A spokesman for the citizens committee said the two-year contract provides a 15-cent-an-hour wage increase the first year and an additional 10 cents the second year. Part of the remaining 7% cents will go into a $2,500,000 tund for the correction of “iniquities." The contract, covering 31,000 TWU members employed by city operated subways and bus lines, will go into effect tomorrow. East Chicago Man Dies Os Injuries EAST CHICAGO (IP) — John Fezekas, 74, East Chicago, died Monday in St. Catherine’s Hospital of injuries sustained when struck by a hit-run driver Dec. 18. Fezekas was East Chicago’s serventh traffic fatally of 1957. Reports On Funds Spent On Roads County Supervisor In Annual Report A total of $317,111.68 was spent on Adams county roads during the past year, Lawrence Noll, highway supervisor, reported to the county commissioners Monday. Noll stated that the balance on hand Jan. 1 will be $13,571.42 in the road funds, and $2,810.71 in the bridge fund. ■ ■ • . In the road fund there was a balance of $31,983.24 on hand Jan. 1, 1957. Receipts from the 1957 gas tax were, February, $44,322.53; April, $112,558.62; August, $70,678 - 49: October, $68,929.24; miscellaneous, including buggy licenses, $2,210.98, for a total of $330,683.10. Disbursements included: labor, $75,366.30; operating expense, $33,977.03; materials? $176,570.11; insurance, $3,071.17; trucks and other equipment, $19,131.37; obligated. for federal aid roads, $8,995.70, for total disbursements of $317,111.68. Bridge fund disbursements for the year totaled $5,189.29.

Annual Meeting Os Drainage Men Here ■ • Krick-Tyndall Co. Host To State Meet . The annual meeting of the Indiana drainage contractors’ association will be held at the Decatur Youth and Community Center Jan. PlO, it was announced today. Several hundred drainage contractors from all part of the state vAll gather here for their annual meeting. This is the second time that the meeting has been held in Decatur, the first being in 1956. Last year, the meeting was held at Purdue University. Mack Sauer, of the Leesburg, Citizen, Leesburg, 0., will address toe group at the afternoon session Jan. 10. Sauer is a well-known speaker and prominent in newspaper circles. The board of directors and various committees will meet at the center at 8 p.m. Jan. 9, the eve-’ ning before the all-day session. The Jan. 10 session will include a 10 a.m. registration, and a 10:30 tour of the Krick-Tyndall company plant. Exhibiting and committee meetings will fill in the morning schedule. At 12:30 the group will be guests of the Krick-Tyndall company at a luncheon at the center. Dan H. of the Krick-TyndtaU company. will welcome the group at the afternoon session, and introduce the gaests. Following the address by Sauer, officers and board members will be elected during the business meeting. At 4 p.m. a panel discussion of farm drainage and suburgan sewage disposal, incentive pay ments under the A.S.C. program, (Continued cn Page Five) Nightly Services In Week Os Prayer Decatur Churches To Hold Services The Associated Churches of Decatur today announced they will observe the week of prayer Jan. 6-12, with nightly services in six different churches. The board of Associated Churches has reported a number of requests to have the Decatur ministers speak in a series of meetings. A committee composed of the Rev. Virgil W. Sexton, Clifford Hoverman and the Rev. Benj. G. Thomas has arranged the following schedule for these services next week: Monday, First Presbyterian church —the Rev. Paul Parker, Nuttman Ave. United Brethren in Christ pastor, as the speaker. Tuesday, Bethany Evangelical United Brethren church—the Rev. f. O. Penrod, Trinity Evangelical United Brethren church, speaker. Wednesday, Church of God — the Rev. Gerald I. Gerig, Decatur Missionary church, speaker. Thursday, Missionary church — the Rev. Stuart Brightwell, First Baptist church, speaker. Friday, Nuttman Ave. U. B.— the Rev. Huston Bever,Jr„ Church of God, speaker. Sunday (Jan. 12), Trinity Evangelical United ’ Brethren church — the Rev. Harold J. Bond, First Presbyterian, speaker. . Services will be held at 7:30 o'clock each evening, with the host pastor in charge of the program. The public is invited to I attend.

Russia Claims Harnessing Os Bomb Reaction First Substantial Progreis/ttaimed By Soviet Russia LONDON (TO — Moscow Radio claimed today that Russia mafle "the first substantial progress” toward harnessing the Hbomb reaction for peaceful use during 1957. The claim was made in a yearend broadcast on 1957’s achievements by Alexander Terpigorev of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. “1116 Soviet physicists, for toe first time in the world,” he said, "obtained a temperature of over one million degrees. “They observed under laboratory conditions the phenomena taking place during the explosion of an H-bomb. "This is the first substantial progress in work aimed at obtaining a controlled thermonuclear reaction.” His broadcast, which w a s beamed at France , gave no further details of Soviet work on the controlled H-bomb. The* Soviet claim of being first to exceed million-degree temperatures was questionable Western experts said. Both the United States and Britain achieved such temperatures in new thermonuclear research equipment which came into use during the past year. Westerners attached more significance to Terpigorev’s statement that Rusian scientists "observed under laboratory conditions the phenomena taking place during the explosion of an H-bomb.” If true, this is a major breakthrough. It is known that British and American scientists believe they have produced under the test-tube (Continued on Paste Five) Heart Attack Fatal To Sophia Borchers Local Man's Mother Is Taken By Death Mrs. Sophia Borchers, 67, Rockford, 0., died Monday at the Gibbons hospital, Celina, 0., shortly after admittance. She suffered a heart attack at her home. She was a native of Germany and came to the United States in 1912, residing in Rockford the past 44 years. Mrs. Borchers was a member of the Presbyterian church at Rockford. Surviving are the husband, Glen; three daughters, Mrs. Martha Sheets of Harrod, 0., Mrs. Jane Alspaugh of Rockford? and Mrs. Emma Roth of Chicago; three sons, James and Lawrence Borchers, both of Lima, 0., and Glen Borchers, Jr., of Decatur; nine grandchildren and a sister, Mrs. Emma Lorenz of Chicago. Funeral services wil be conducted at 2 p.m. Thursday at the Ketcham funeral home in Rockford, the Rev. James Morris officiating. Burial will be in Riverside cemetery. Friepds may call at the funeral home after 7:30 o’clock this evening until time of the services.

Salary Boosts For Employes Os City Five Per Cent Hike Approved By Council Two new ordinances, fixing the salaries of all employes of the municipal light and water departments, and one fixing the salaries of certain employes and heads of departments of the civil city of Decatur, was adopted Monday in a special meeting of the city council to finish any remaining business for the year 1957. The new ordinances, which will become effective January 1, 1958, show approximately five percent increases in the salaries of all the heads of the departments except the light and power superintendent, the water superintendent and the city engineer, and increases of five percent in all of the lower wage brackets. The new salaries for the heads of the departments and certain employes of the civil city of Decatur includes city attorney, $l6O per month; chief of police, $4,599 per year; regular policemen, $315 per month; fire chief, $4,599 per year; regular firemen, $315 per month; city engineer, $2,580 per year; secretary* of the board of health S3OO per year; health board members SSO per year; milk inspector, S4O per month; city hall custodian, $225 per month, and park custodian, S6OO per year. The new salaries for the light and power department Include superintendent, s7,3Bft? per year; chief engineer, $462 per month; assistant chief engineer, $371.75 per month; operating engineer, $346.50 per month; firemen, $336 per month; reliefmen, $341.25 per month; repairmen and machan(Continuad on Page Five) SIB,OOO Fire Loss In Decatur In 1957 Annual Report Os Fire Department The annual report of the Decatur fire department was filed by fire chief Cedric Fisher with the board of works and the city council at the final meeting of the council for the year 1957, on Monday. The report, approved and recorded by the council, showed an estimated loss of SIB,OOO for the year of 1957. One human life was lost during a home fire June 16, when Mrs. Richard Miller died of asphyxiation. The fire department made a total of 53 runs in the city during the year. The largest single reports of fire calls made were sixteen, with burning grass as their cause. The report also showed the following fires investigated: homes, seven; garages, three; defective wiring, two; furnace and heating equipment, three; chimney flues, two; automobiles, five; trucks, two; motors, two; trash, two; electric light pole, one; water heaters, two; natural gas, one; and unknown causes, three. Special services performed by the fire department included flushing streets, using the resuscitator at the water treatment plant and standing by at a wrecked car. The largest number of calls in one month was 15, in the month of March. The fire department made 18 runs to the country during 1957, and there were two false

More Defense Spending Will Boost Budget I S’ight Surplus Is Promised As Budget Slight Surplus Is GETTYSBURG, Pa. (UP)-The : White House said today that President Eisenhower plans to submit 1 to Congress a 1959 budget which will be higher than this year, but : balanced and with “a slight surplus." The announcement followed a conference of two hours and 15 minutes between the President, Budget Director Pereival Brundage, Deputy Budget Director Maurice Stans and Dr. James R. Killian, scientific adviser to the President. Killian also had a separate meeting with Eisenhower. Administration officials said th# budget undoubtedly would bg above this year’s 72 billion dollars, the increase due largely to increased defense spending for the space era. Press Secretary James C. Hagerty said he did not expect taxes would have to be raised to keep the higher budget in balance. “But there’ll be no tax reductions,” he raid with a touch of grimness. Hagerty , repeated what the President has said before—that the administration will ask Congress to continue present high excise and corporation taxes. Hagerty said the President and Brundage had arrived at a tentative final budget total, but could not close the books until the President returns to Washington and talks over some particular defense items with Defense Secretary Neil H. McElroy at a Cabinet meeting Friday. Hagerty declined to give ths, tentative total for the new budget, but administration sources to Washington have predicted It would be about 74 billion dollars. Other news from the conferences this morning on the Eisenhower farm: —The President will deliver an abbreviated State of the Union message to Congress in person Jan. 9. The bulk of his recommendations, particularly those involving domestic legislation, will be spelled out to detail to his budget message. —The budget itself will be submitted to Congress Jan. 13. —No definite date for the President’s economic report to Congress has been set, but Jan. 20 seems most likely. A usually well-informed government source said the administration had tempered an earlier idea to take a big chunk out of the five billion dollar veterans program. But it was understood an attempt still would be made to merge non-service connected pensions with social security as an economy move. However, sources said other contemplated economies which did not need congressional action apparently have been jettisoned as far as veterans are concerned. One reason advanced for hitting the braks on any drastic cutbacks was the downtown of the economy and the need to keep money pumped into it The cutbacks indicated by the President also promised to become political issues in an election year. House Republican Leader Joseph W. Martin said the administration and Congress must “do some tightrope walking to keep inflation or deflation from getting .Continued on Page Five)

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