Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 307, Decatur, Adams County, 31 December 1957 — Page 6

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New Year's Celebration Again To Be Expensive

By UNITED PRESS Auld Lang Syne will ring out boisterously around the land this New Year's Eve, with celebrants paying about the same price as last year to wake up with the same sized hangover. A United Pfess survey indicates the cost of ringing in the new year on the town tonight be iittle changed—expensive—and the free-spending crowds also wilt be about the same—large. Prices range from $37.50 per at high class bistros in New York and Los Angeles with top name entertainers to the regular prices at the neighborhood bar featuring color television. * Mingling with the din of merryj making Will be the peal of church bells calling the devout t<» church services, many of them all-night watch services. Warns of Road Hazards Another somber note was injected by the National Safety Council, which warned as many as 130 persons will be . killed in grinding traffic wrecks, with drunken drivers contributing heavily to the toll. Weathermen warned of possible heavy snow, rain and sleet in much of the Midwest today. Hazardous driving conditions could send the traffic fatality count skyrocketing. For those willing to take the risks of holiday traffic and temporary bankruptcy, here's a spot check of what the situation will be in various parts of the coUnUrges Resolutions Be Made Each Day ' Psychologist Gives Resolution Reasons By GAY PAULEY United Press Women’s Editor NEW YORK (UP)— Why do we make New Year’s resolutions? "Because of our sense of guilt .. .our eagerness to expiate and improve ourselves,” says Dr. James F. Bender, a leading psychologist. , Then why do we "Well,'’ said Bender, ut’s because we are imperfect manifestations of God’s creation. We 11 never be perfect, but we keep on trying" Bender, 53, an author, lecturer and consultant to business and in- . dustry. said the best way to make resolutions is not once a year, but once a day. Take Them Like Medicine "Take them like a dose of medicine, every morning on arising, or at bedtime," he said. He believes most persons are completely sincere , as they sit down at this time of the year to list their 10—“ All of us are basically interested in bettering our-

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try: t, New York City—lt will be stand- , ing room only on famed Times ; i Square with extra policemen on ; hand, to control the crowd and ! firemen watching fireboxes to prevent false alarms. New York- ; ers will shell out $37.50 per to i 1 hear Pearl Bailey at the Empire !'Room of the Waldorf Astoria ; ! Prices in other night spots will ■ rang* from sls to $7.50 per person. 1 1 Reservations Up in Hollywood Los Angeles—Plush nightclubs ' in Hollywood and vicinity report • reservations up somewhat, with about 900 persons expected to jam the Ambassador Hotel's Cocoanut Grove at $37.50 per person. Elsewherd the tab, runs from $17.50 to 525 per ’ Chicago—The Chez Paree will have the town's top tariff. $24.60. including a steak dinner and entertainment by Sam Levenson and the Four Lads. The Empire Room of the Palmer House will feature Jaye P. Morgan and a filet Mignon check of $19.75. Milwaukee—The world capital of baseball has a top of S3O per couple, but the average price at nightclubs is $5 per person minimum. Elsewhere, the tariff runs from $7.50 to $lO at Dallas; $7.50 per at Atlanta, Ga.. plus $2.50 for dancing;' $lO cover tops at Detroit; $5 to $lO at Washington, $lO minimum in Boston plus tax. and $lO in Minneapolis. selves”. But having followed the usual pattern for many years, and finding I still am one of those “imperf ee t manifestations”. I’ve • launched a new system this year. My resolutions list hardly is for self-improvement, but is guaranteed easy to keep. I resolve: —To go ahead and run up my charge accounts; let the stores worry, for a chage. b _To quit offering seats to old ladies on buses and subways; if 1 they’re able to travel, they're able 1 to stand. Quit Being Cheerful —To quit being cheerful in the , morning to bus drivers and elevator operators; a smile gets only 'grunt and scowl anyway. —To stop trying to save money; ’ ! Uncle Sam takes a big chunk and i what's left can't go with you. —To call the police every time r my apartment house neighbors ' throw a party beyond the 11 p.m. ' curfew. May not be good-neighbor-Mly, but it’ll make a quieter 1958. —To stop counting calories, once the waistline is out of hand, I will ' break this resolution, and by that r time, someone will come to my , rescue with a new wonder diet. ' Picking wildflowers in a national . park is punishable by a fine up to SSOO. or imprisonment of not, more than six months, or both.

Boy Plays Soldier, Killed By Grenade 11-Year-Old Boy Is j. Killed In Colorado COLORADO SPRINGS y Colo." iIP — Eleven-year-old ’ Donald Kruger played soldier with a five hand grenade Monday. It .blew off his hands and killed him. - Donald's, mother said he found it in their closet, apparently left by one of the soldiers from Fort Carson, Colo., who had previously lived in the house. "I hope that soldier has this on his conscience as long as he lives,” she said. "I know I will.” The three other boys in the family, who watched Donald pull the pin on the grenade, backed off in fear and escaped serious injuries. It exploded close to his chest, blew off his hands and drove metal fragments into his chest and stomach. Donald tottered Into the house screaming: "Momy, I'm dead: I’m dead!” The boy collapsed, and he died 45 minutes later under surgery. The previous night, boys showed the grenade to Victor Jech, Donald's stepfather, who said he didn't know what it was. 1 Police said Jech, a window cleaner, trew the grenade under a bed, not thinking it was dahgerous. Hero's Welcome To Michigan Grid Star Little Rock Native Is Welcomed Home LITTLE ROCK. Ark. w" — Jim Pace, Michigan’s star Negro football player, flew into a hero's welcome Monday, but his greeting party did not include Gov. I Orval Faubus as some prankster! hpdtold Pace it would. The Little Rock native who went north to gain football Fame found 500 persons, mostly , Negroes, crowding to< meet mm. But not Faubus. Several weeks ago. Pace said i someone called him at Ann Ar-1 bor, Mich., and said that a committee, headed by Faubus and Little Rock Chamber of Commerce officials, was preparing a celebration in his honor. No mention was made of the incident Monday. Pace was given a gold watch and 14-inch trophy in recognition of his abihty by Dr. Le Roy M Christophe, president of Horace i Mann High School. Pace, kissed his mother, Mrs. Ethel Sullivan, as he walked across the runway and said, "I s great to be home.” Arriving with the Big Ten's leading scorer were Willie Smith of Michigan and Sidney Williams of Wisconsin. Pace and Smith both played football at Dunbar High School. Williams is from Hot Springs. Bids Too Low BURLINGTON. Vt. — W) — ' The water department has refused 10 bids for 4<ypontoons and 4,400 feet of 24-inch pipe. Superintendent Francis O'Brien said the bids were not high enough for the material laid in Lake Champlain in 1894 and recently taken up. The top bid was $3,300. The BucoHe Life MORLEY, Mich. — W — When farmer Frank Green, attempted to corral his cow, the animal kicked at him, stirring up a nest of bees. Green took off his hat and began swatting the bees. The.hat slipped from his grip and-landed on the cow’s nose. She ate the hat and Green ran from the bees. L/7' Leaguer ' “NOW it's my turn . . Happy New Year everybody!”

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W mb - III* 1 IHHS ■’ V . 111 "BMWWy I HL . bar ■■■MM <Hb -Z TO VISIT HER SON IN RED CHINA—Mrs. Ruth Red- whom the children have never seen. She is one ■ mond, 58, is shown at her home in Yonkers, of three mothers given permission by the Red • N. Y., with her grandchildren, who look at a Chinese government to visit their sons, American . photo of her son, Hugh, 38, who was imprisoned civilians. Mrs. Redmond is taking warm clothing, -1 in Red Chiha after his conviction on “spying” vitamins and razor blades to her son. In one of J charges six years ago. Mrs. Redmond will leave three letters from him, he mentioned that he had < on New Year's Day on a flight to visit Hugh, been stricken with Beri Beri and lost his teeth. 8

Unusual Senfence Given 20 Youths Sentenced To Tour Prison In Illinois JOLIET, 111. (UP' — Twenty! youths knocking at the door to a life of crime have had a glimpse! iof where it could lead them. j The youths — ranging in age ’ from 12 to 17 and all residents .of nearby Aurora, Ill.—toured the Joliet branch of the Illinois State Prison Monday. They were sentenced to the tour by Justice of the Peace William Wake in Aurora last Thursday. The unusual sentence followed a recent juvenile crime spree in Aurora and each of the 20 boys was named by authorities as having had a part in one or more of the crimes—mostly burglaries. The youths were met at the prison gates by Warden Frank Ragen—a Jarge man with a reputation as a penal expert. Ragen was grim-faced when he first ad-' I dressed the boys by telling them to "keep orderly because we know how to handle tough guys here.” "Remember." Ragen told the young group, '‘all the suckers are in there.” (He pointed to /the sprawling prison)—"not out there* —"(he gestured to the streets oil ; Joliet'. i Tough Talks Back But the boys appeared a hardened bunch. "We know how to handle tough guys, too," one of them said. The group was bunched together and the astonished warden, couldn't ! discern who made the remark. Ragen escorted the group to the prison laundry. the shoemaking shop, the maintenance room. They ; saw everything of note in the 11 ' buildings.of the institution—includi ing the isolation ward, j Ragen banged on one of .the'cell doors in the isolation section. "Come-on out for a minute," Ihe said in a loud voice. "I want [you to meet some people.” I The door was unlocked and a pasty-faced prisoner with a blanket draped over him like a shawl ■ appeared from the dark room. Hist j eyes blinked at the light. No Tour Next Time "Go ahead and talk to him, Ragen told the youths. "How is it in there?" one of the older boys asked: "I’m always alone,"-the man said. "It’s monotonous and dark.” He told the potential criminals he was doing time for armed robbery. . , They saw a convicted murderer in the’ next cell.jThen Ragencontinued the tout® explaining thp prison work schedule on the way. One of the youths appeared surprised that prisoners had jobs to perform. “I didn't know they did so much work in jail,” he said. . “What did you think they did here?" Ragen asked. “I thought they just sat in their cells and wrote books,” the boy replied. Ragen told them after the tour ■ was over that “if I eVer see any lof you again, it won't just be for a tour.” , „ “You'll never-see me again, came a voice from the crowd of youths. But authorities said many of the boys left the prison wearing the same "cynical smirks they had upon entering.

Ike's School ■» Plan Receives I’ Favorable Nod Chief Criticism By Congressmen Is Os Too Little Scope WASHINGTON (UP) "Too little" was .the chief cry raised today against President Eisenhower's space-age school program. Congressional reaction was mixed but generally favorable toward establishing 10,000 scholarships a year for four years to send bright students to college—the major proposal in the program. Asst. Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield (Mont.) called it a “step in the right direction", and with a “good” chance of congressional passage. But Asst. House Democratic Leader Carl Albert (Okla.) said it should have provided 20.000 scholarships a year instead of 10,000. He called the administration's seven-point program "much itoo small” to meet the “critical i challenge” of Russia's scientific ! advances. The program, announced by the White House ip • Gettysburg, Pa., Monday, calls, for federal aid to states to identify and direct talented high school students to college, plus a federal scholarship program to help 10,000 such students attend college who otherwise could not afford to do so. It also calls for federal aid to states to improve teaching of science and mathematics, steps to improve language teaching, and other moves to promote education of scientists, engineers and youths generally to meet the needs of an increasingly complex world. Marion B. Folsom, secretary of health, education and welfare, gave it a tentative four-year price tag of about $1,600,000,000 in both federal and state money. Os this the federal government would spend around one billion dollars. The National Education Assn., speaking for most of the nation s elementary and secondary school educators, called the program “far below a realistic appraisal of the needs which our schools confront.” NEA Executive Secretary William G. Carr said the NEA believes at least one billidh dollars a year in added federal funds for salaries, scholarships, buildings, fellowships and other purposes is needed "at once" with a step-up to five billion a year within the next five years. Union City Plans Wilson Day Dinner Democrats of Randolph county will hold a Wilson Day banquet at the Union City Elks club Jan. 8, with Marshall E. Hanley, Muncie city attorney and former U. S. district attorney, and a candidate for senator this year, as principal speaker. , Trade in a good town — Decatut

filoomy Weather On last Day Os 1957 Warn Os Hazardous Driving Conditions By UNITED PRESS Snow, sleet, rain, drizzle and fog cast a gloomy pall over Indiana today on the last day of 1957. Hoosiers may greet the New Year tonight amid snowfall and sharply dropping tern of and drive home from parties on icy roads and streets. The snow blanket already was 1 to 1% inches deep in the area around the southern tip of Lake Michigan shortly after dawn, and forecasts called for an accumulation up to 2 to 4 inches deep by tonight in the northern third of the state. The central portion may have snow up to 2 inches deep. Southward. it probably will not get cold enough for snow-to stick. Highways were slippery and slushy upstate as snow, sleet and freezing rain swept across the extreme north portion. Elsewhere, it was raining or drizzling, and there was fog in the Indianapolis, Terre Haute, South Bend and Fort Wayne areas. K The weatherman issued a “preliminary, warning” of hazardous roads this evening and tonight in the Indianapolis area with freezing rain or sleet changing to snow while temperatures drop from a high of 42 to a low of 20. Southern Indiana was expected to have rain mixed with some snow this afternoon and tonight but there was no indication there would be any accumulation on the ground. The rain which fell overnightly was light but it pushed the precipitation totals higher than ever in the wettest calendar year in Hoosierland since ‘the 19th Century. Terre Haute had .17 of an inch by 7 a.m.. Evansville .12, South Bend .09, Fort Wayne .04 and Lafayette .02. Temperatures Monday crested between 44 at Lafayette and 51 at Evansville, and dropped during the night to lows ranging from 29 at South Bend to 38 at Evansville. The mercury was due to hit highs from the low 30s to low 40s today before dropping toward lows ranging from 12 to 18 north to 25 south tonight. The first day of 1958 will be marked by high temperatures ranging from 25 to 30 north to r 3 Oto' 35 south. The outlook for Wednesday and Thursday was fair to partly cloudy with no additional precipitation, and cold. Driver Indicted In Girl's Death INDIANAPOLIS — (IP) — Charles E. Loeke, 22, Indianapolis, was in dieted by a grand jury Monday on charges of reckless homicide and involuntary manslaughter in the Oct. 31 death of Rita Jeanne O'Connor. Miss O’Connor was walking -along an Indianapolis street when Locke’s car allegedly sped onto the sidewalk and struck her down. ’

Bitter Attacks At Afro-Asian Parley On West Moderating Moves By Two Lands Fail To Prevent Attacks CAIRO (IPI — Moderating efforts by Ethiopian and Tunisian delegates failed today to stop a series of bitter and sweeping attacks against the West at the unofficial Afro - Asian “solidarity” conference. The conference’s economic committee was scheduled to submit the last committee report today. It was expected to take the same leftist, anti-Western line that previous commitee reports have reflected. The conference will end tomorrow. All draft resolutions are expected to receive automatic endorsement. An example of the tone of the resolutions was contained in the one from the political committee. It called for United Nations action ' to investigate British “crimes” in Kenya. The draft also demanded the return by the United States of Okinawa to Japan and called for a boycott of all Dutch shipping carrying goods for use against Indonesia. The 17-point political resolution in fact represented a comprehensive indictment of Western policies in general. It was rated by some sources as a triumph for Communist propagandists. Mekasha Getachew of Ethiopia expressed increasing concern about the obviously anti-Western tone of the resolution. He said that together with the Tunisian delegation he had sought unsuccessfully to moderate the wording of the final political reso-1 lution. But the only concession he succeeded in winning, he said, was substitution of a pledge to adhere to the non-interference principles —adopted at the official Afro-Asian conference in Bandug two years ago— than a flat endorsement of positive neutrality. Getachew said his delegation[ failed to get the words “against the peoples will” addedto a -text calling for an end to military bases on foreign soil. Farmer Is Slill In Cost-Price Squeeze Parity Ratio Is At 81 Per Cent WASHINGTON (UP) — The American farmer wound up 1957 in the same predicament he was in a year ago —a cost-price squeeze. t The Agriculture Department's monthly price report showed prices farmers received for crops and livestock in mid-December were 3 per cent higher than a year ago. Farm production expenses also rose 3 per cent for the year. Thus the parity ratio between what farmers received and 'what they paid out was 81 per cent—the same as in December, 1956. Parity is the price needed to put commodities sold by farmers on a par with the cost of things they must buy—theoretically a fair return for their products. The mid • December index of farm prices received was 242 per cent of the 1910-14 base period. This was unchanged from a month ago. The index of prices paid rose to an all-time high of 299 per cent in mid-month, up three-tenths of 1 per cent from a month ago. The increase in the prices-paid index was not enough to change the parity ratio from the 81 per cent registered last month and last December. The farmer got higher prices during the month for meat animals and sweet potatoes. These were offset by lower prices for cotton, tomatoes, milk and oranges. The farmer had to pay higher prices for feeder livestock, tractors and trucks. He got a little bpeak in cost-of-family living items. Average hog prices for the month were $17.90 per hundredweight, up $1.20 from a month ago and $1.70 from a year ago. Average beef cattle prices were $18.70 per hundredweight, up 90 cents from mid-November and $4.70 from a year ago. Trade in a good town — Decatur

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1957

Hurry-Up Hearings For Missile Funds Emergency Fund Request Expected WASHINGTON (IB — A House miMtary appropriations subcommittee today ordered hurry-up hearings on President Eisenhower's anticipated request for emergency missile funds. Its chairman indicated the request will be approved. “From what I know of it," Rep. George H. Mahon (D-Tex.) told newsmen, “it makes sense to me.” Mahon said he does not expect until Jan. 13 the President’s formal request for about $1,200,000,000 in extra defense funds for the balance of this fiscal year ending next July 1. But he said he expects to get an ,l informar' look at the request before then and start subcommittee hearings Jan. 8. “I understand what they want is money to expedite missile production,” Mahon said. “I think it ought to be expedited.” Mahon, who plays a key part in congressional decisions on military , appropriations, also made it plain he will support the President’s expected request for a missile-heavy defense budget for fiscal 1959 starting next July 1. South Dakota is the United States’ foremost producer of gold. BEFORE INVENTORY SALE! EUREKA SWEEPERS SPECIAL Limited Supply ADMIRAL PORTABLE T.V. SETS SPECIAL ADMIRAL CONSOLE T.V. SETS SPECIAL ADMIRAL ELECTRIC RANGE SPECIAL $199.00 RADIOS ’ll 00 e > l7- M T.V. LAMPS *3-*4-*5 CONVENTIONAL WASHER SPECIAL $ 229* 5 ° llazdin Heating & Appliances Hi-Way 27—North PHONE 3-3808