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MIBSLEB—PRO AND CON— While. Defense Secretary Neil McElroy, (left) first witness before the House Armed Services Committee, told that group that production has started on the 1,500-mile Polaris missile, which can be launched from submerged submarines, Gen. David Samoff, board chairman of the Radio Corporation of America, informed the Senate Preparedness Committee that the U. S. is not doing enough to overcome its missile-satellite lag behind Russia. Sarnoff) stated that missile-firing nuclear submarines are more dangerous than intercontinental ballistic missiles.

Auto Makers Rap Reuther Profit Plan Big Three Leaders Oppose Union's Bid On Profit-Sharing DETROIT (UP)—Leaders of the big three auto companies and a union opponent of Walter P. Reuther today shared the opposition to Reuther’s 1958 contract demands for a share of profits and a maze of economic gains. _ At the same time a leading economist, who is also a member of the union’s public review board, labeled the profit-sharing plan “window dressing —a publicity move one should • expect at the beginning of bargaining sessions.” The presidents of the auto companies called Reuther’s profit sharing plan a danger to the free , enterprise system and said his. wage demands are too big. Stellate Opposes Plan The union opponent of Reuther, who is UAW president, is Carl Stellate- president of Local 600, the Ford Rouge plant local which includes 40,000 members, largest local in the world. Stellato was a backer of a shorter work week, which was dropped by Reuther and the UAW executive board because of the economic recession and the needs of national security. Stellato, worried about more than 6,000 layoffs in the Ford work force, said the shorter work week, passed at the UAW convention last summer, would have provided more jobs The original plan of the union was for more pay and the shorter work week. _ Plans Convention Fight Stellato said he would lead a fight for the four-day week at the special UAW convention here Jan. 22-24. The convention of 3,000 delegates must approve the Reuther plan, already passed by the 25member executive board and a 200-member steering committee Harlow H. Curtice, president of General Motors Corp., said the UAW’s bargaining objectives announced Monday “are in keeping with the union’s earlier threat to exert its tremendous economic power ...” L. L. Colbert, Chrysler Corp President and Ernest R. Breech Ford Motor Co. board chairman, both referred to Reuther's "mote itlnusd on Page Five) Seeks To Recover Texts Paid State SOUTH BEND (IP! — The South Bend Lathe Works filed suit in St. Joseph Superior Court Monday seeking to recover $7,651 paid in Indiana gross income taxes. The suit, similar to many on file against the Indiana Gross Income Tax Division, claims the state taxed the corporation illegally for sales —made in interstate- commerce as far back as 1951. —.- The firm said it filed a claim for refunds but the division did not respond. Bowen Funeral Rites Thursday Afternoon Funeral services will be held Thursday for Cloyce Heber Bowen, prominent Willshire, 0., farmer, who died Sunday afternoon of injuries sustained in a fall from a haymow Dec. 31. » Services will be conducted at 1:45 p.m. Thursday at the Zwick funeral home and at 2:30 p.nn. at the Willshire Methodist church, the Rev. James .Hipkins officiating. Burial will be in the Willshire cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home until time of the services. .

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Industry Division Meets Here Monday County Auditor Is Speaker At Meeting The industrial division of the Chamber of Commence held a luncheon meeting at the Decatur Ybuth and Community Center Monday noon. Speaker for the meeting was Edward F. Jaberg. county auditor, who gave a brief talk on the tax situation in Adams county. „ Tom Allwein, chairman of the industrial division, introduced Robert Chappuis, the new personnel director of the Central Soya company, to the rest of the membersand then introduced Jaberg. Jaberg stated that the total assessed value of the property in Adams county is $45,271,000, of which Decatur has almost onefourth, or $11,073,000. Total taxes paid in Adams county last year amounted to $1,693,614 and'Decatur paid almost one-third, or $553,000. The reason Decatur pays one-third of the taxes while having only one-fourth of the assessment is because Decatur has the upkeep of a police and fire department, school and library upkeep, a park fund and a street fund. Jaberg also stated that a new law was passed by the Indiana legislature which will go into effect tihs year, allowing a SI,OOO tax exemption to people over 65 years of age whose income is less than $2,250. The more tax exempeions Which are given, the higher the tax rate will be, he stated. Decatur also has a mortgage exemption and a soldier exemption. Decatur has a railroad assessment of $275,000, a utilities assessment of $300,000 and an industry assessment of $2,275,000. Jaberg compared Decatur’s tax rate with that of Lake county and showed that certain areas in Lake county have a tax rate of close to nine dollars, while Decatur's is $5.60. He stated that De"atur compares favorably with Allen county this year. He finished his talk by stating hat Decatur’s poll’tax has been $2.50 for a number of years but could go as high as $6. Retail Division To Meet This Evening The retail division of the Chamber of Commerce will hold a meeting tonight at 7:30 o’clock at the Decatur Youth and Community (gbnter. Purpose of the meeting wiH-be to install the new officers of the retail division for the new year. New officers include:’ Dave Moore, chairman; Kenneth Shannon, vice chairman; Thomas Garner, secretary, and Dale Morrissey, treasurer. Bethany Congregation Will Meet Wednesday .. A congregation meeting will be held at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Bethany Evangelical United Brethren church to receive a report from the building committee, which was appointed five months ago. Members of the committee, which has consulted architects, are Amos Ketchum, chairman; Ivan Stucky, vice chairman; Vernon Custer, secretary; the Rev. Benj. G. Thomas, Mrs. Merritt AJger, Mrs.'R. K. McConnell, Adolph Kolter, Karl K. Kolter, William Linn, Earl Fuhrman and Mrs. Harlan Jackson. Ketchum will preside at the meeting, which will open with devotions by Rev. Thomas. Included on the agenda will be the possibilities of building at the present location, the possibilities of building at a new location, and advice from architects. .

Opposition To One Powerful Chief Os Staff GOP Congressional Leaders Inform Ike Opposition Likely WASHINGTON (UP)—Republican legislative leaders told President Eisenhower today to expect some opposition in Congress to any proposal for a single powerful staff chief for the armed services. Senate Republican Leader William F. Knowland said after a White House conference that the leaders told the President congressional objections have been "voiced against vesting too much power in the head of the joint chiefs.” The President in his State of the Union message said he was determined to maintain strong central control of the Defense Department and to wipe out Interservice bickering- Knowland said he expects the President's detailed proposals to go to Congress "in the not too distant future.” Gen. Thomas D. White, Air Force chief of staff- has told Congress the Strategic Air Command “will be going downhill relative to the Soviet threat” two years from now because it was denied 700 million dollars in the new defense budget. Knowland said that whether defense spending is increased will depend on intensive committee hearings and on future world developments.' SAC will have "a doubtful situation a’year from now for about a year,” White also said in a censored transcript of secret testimony given. to the Senate preparedness subcommittee. But the Air Force chief declined to speculate under committee questioning whether failure to keep up production of the nation s No. 1 retailiatory weapon — the hydrogen-bomb carrying 852— would “imperil” United States security. Bs2’s “Very Necessary” Instead he said ihe Bs2’s were “very necessary” to provide "additional insurance’’ while ballistic missiles add the new 858 bombers are still untested.” Adequacy* of President Eisenhower’s proposed $39,800,000,000 military budget was to be explored further today by the missile investigators in closed session. jt „ , They called George Bunker, president of the Glenn L- Martin Co-, Baltimore, and Bell Laboratories president Mervin Kelly of New York to testify. Martin is a contractor for the Titan and Vanguard missiles and Bell does work on the Nike and other weapons. They were, to be foUowed by General Nathan F. Twining, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. „ McElroy to Testify In other top developments; —Defense Secretary Neil H. McElroy was summoned by the House Armed Services Committee to tell whether he will assign the Army or the Air Force to take over development of anti-missile (Coou-.ued vn P»K« Five) Legion Oratorical Contest In Decatur State Contest Will Be Hers March 21 The state finals for the American Legion oratorical contest wifi be held in the Decatur high school gym at 2 p. m. Friday, March 21, it was announced last night at the regular meeting of Adams post 43. For the first time in the history of the Legion, the final contest wiH be held in Decatur. Frank Detter, last year’s commander, announced that this was being done to honor Hugh Andrews principal of the Decatur high school, and for many years district chairman- of the oratorical contest. Andrews’ outstanding interest in the contest on a dis r trict and state level was credited with responsibiHty for the wide recognition that the contest receives; ~ Local, district, and zone contests will be held as usual, with school run-offs, then the county meet, probably at Decatur, the district and zone meets at Fort Wayne, and • finally the state meet here. Paul Schmidt, a senior last year, was an entrant in the state meet in 1957, held at French Lick. Following the contest, a dinner for the four contestants and their guests wiH-be 'held at the Legion home. Special committees will be appointed soon to arrange for the special event

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, January 14, 1958

Secretary Os Treasury Asks Congress Increase Debt Limit $5 Billion

Unemployment Highest Since Year Os 1950 December Total Os Jobess 200,000 Up From November WASHINGTON (UP) — Unemployment in December climbed to 3,374,000—the highest for any December since 1949—the .government reported today This also was the greatest number of jobless persons since February 1950, when there were 4,684,000 unemployed. The total was nearly 200,000 greater than the November figure of 3,188,000 and 660,000 greater than December, 1956. The figure for last month also represented the highest rate of joblessness in three years. The monthly report on the U.S. labor force by the Labor and Commerce showed a December unemployment rate, adjusted for seasonal swings in jobs, of 5.2 per cent of the nation s labor force. The December rate was the highest since the 5.4 per cent of November, 1954. The November, 1957, rate was 5.1 per cent. The report showed a total of 64,396,000 persons employed during December —about the same as in December 195 6. The difference i s ing December —about the so to accounted for by the increase in the total labor forceFor example, the total labor force last month was 70,458,000 compared with 69,855,000 for December, 1956. On this basis, the number of persons with jobs last month dropped .nearly half a million from November. The report attributed the increase in unemployment to "further sharp cutbacks in manufacturing and construction.” Rotary Discussion Contest Thursday Group Contest Will , Be Held Thursday The Decatur Rotary club will host the group speech contest Thursday night, with Miss Barbarp Kalver representing Decatur. Other contestants from Berne Bluffton, Fort Wayne and Colum bia City will also take part. Churu busco, which is also included ir the group, is not expected to have a contestant. Frank Noble, of Berne, grouj representative, will have charg of the program. Guests are ex pected from each of the clubs pai ticipating. Subject for this year’s contest is “What Can I Do?” with the speakers stressing their plans and vocations for adult life. Miss Kalver won the right to represent the Decatur Rotary club over five other contestants at the Dec. 19 meeting. Other local contestants, all from Decatur high school, were Susan »Custer, Judy Lane, Ken Eliasson, Jane Wass, and Janice Voshell. INDIANA WEATHER Mostly cloudy, somewhat colder north and central tonight night chance of some light snow or snow flurries extreme north portton late tonight Wednesday cloudy with light snow or snow flurries likely north and rain possibly mixed with snow, developing south portion Wednesday afternoon or night. Colder north and central and turning colder extreme south Wednesday. Low tonight 24-30 north, in the 30s south. High Wednesday 30-37 north, 37-44 south. Sunset today 5:34 p.m. Sunrise Wednesday 8:05 a.m. Outlook for Thursday: Partly cloudy and a littte * colder. Lows Wednesday night in the 20s. Highs Thursday in the 30s. -

Heart Foundation Will Furnish Room Donation Made By Heart Foundation The Heart foundation of Adams County will furnish the first-floor room which will be used to make electrocardiograms for heart patients, the board of trustees of the Adams county memorial hospital announced today. Mrs. R. C. Hersh, county president, announced that the foundation would present S2OO to furnish the room with a couch, chairs, and other things necessary. The new room will be part of the extensive remodeling accompanying the building of the new addition to the hospital. The present.dining room will be converted into the electrocardiograph room. Dr. G. J. Kohne, of Decatur, is a member of the Northeastern Indiana council for the heart foundation. Other county board members include Mrs. Frank Crist, Mrs. Myrtle L. Filson, Mrs. Roy B. Friedley, of Decatur; Mrs. Herbert Burdg, of Berne, and Mrs. Theron Fenstermaker, ’of Geneva. The heart foundation is the second medical group to announce “help for the hospital. The county mental health society announced the gift of $450 to furnish the isolation room for mental patients sev-e-al months ago. gift of a single unit by the Oder of the Eastern Star was unintentionally omitted from the list of 35 honors of memorial units in the Daily Democrat Monday. Child Dies In Fall From Father's Auto INDIANAPOLIS (IP! — Horsley, 2, Indianapolis, was injured fatally Monday night When she fell from the back seat of her father’s automobile on Ind. 431 in Hamilton County and was crushed by another car. Susan was riding with Wilfred H. Horsley, 47, The other car was driven by Mrs. MilJred Jlixr.in.. 44, Indianapolis.

Present Petitions To Commissioners County Board Meets In Weekly Session The Adams county board of commissioners met Monday in their weekly session in the auditor’s office in the county court house. Ernest Zeigler and Edward Xnderson appeared before the board to request that action be taken on an overflow bridge on road 22 in Hartford township, east of the» Hartford Center school. The matter was referred to Lawrence Noll, county highway superintendent. Adolph Marbkch and Amos Thieme appeared before the board to inquire about the possibility of blacktopping county road 28 between county road 5 and U. S. road 224 in Root township. No pettion was filed and no definite action was taken by the board. The-.report of the grand jury for the November term of 1957 was -read and submitted to the board of commissioners for their consideration. Ernest Sommer, Chester Adams, Mary Adams, Julia Adams, tinufed on

Mrs. Wilbur Meeks In Charge Os Aid Mrs. Wilbur Meeks, R.N., will have charge of the Red Cross first aid station at the Saturday afternoon session of the Adams county tourney at Adams Central, it Was announced today. Mrs. Meeks will replace Mrs. Edna Haviland, R. N., who was originally scheduled to have charge. She will be assisted -by Mrs. Arthur Shoaf ’and Mrs. Johnson, and the Hardy & Hardy ambqlance will stand by.

Supreme Gouri Restates Free Speech Policy Decisions Monday Restate Doctrine For Free Speech WASHINGTON (UP) — The Supreme Court has reinforced its free speech doctrine in two important areas: Sex and city ordinances. It did so in two decisions Monday. One struck down lower court rulings that permitted the post office to ban from the mails certain issues of two nudist magazines and another magazine entitled- “One, the Homosexual Magazine.” x The other knocked out an ordinance in the town of Baxley, Ga., requiring anyone to get a permit before trying to sign up members in a labor union or other duespaying organization. The nudist magazines in quesition were, two specific issues of I “Sunshine & Health” and “Sun" both advocating nudism. The pub- ■ Ushers said both are edited by Dr. Ilsley Boone, 78, whom they described as the "dean of American nudists.” They said his children, grandchildren and great* grandchildren are nudists. Judges to interpret The court did not hand down a written opinion in the magazine case but cited its obscenity standard laid down in a ruling last year "Whether to the average person, applying contemporary community standards, the dominant theme of the material taken as a whole appeals to prurient interests.” Prurient, in the sense cited by the justices, means lewd or lascivious- However the high court has never laid down a guide for deciding what it takes to appeal to a person’s lewd side, or whose lewd instincts are involved. Conceivably one person might deem something lascivious that another thought artistic, or merely dull. Presumably the court’s rule-of-thumb is up to judges,' juries or pubUc officials with censorship rotes to interpret. In the case of the nudist magazines, the post office banned them from the mail before the publishers were given a hearing. Later the Post Office Department held a hearing and ruled them obscene. The court ruling indicated the magazines should have been given the hearing before being banned. The Baxley Case Two of the justices William O. Douglas and Hugo L. Black, have asserted "nothing is more devastating” to free speech than the power to restrain publication “before even a hearing Is held.” The Baxley ordinance ruling reversed. by a 7-2 vote, the convicCot.tinueO on °aK«

Mrs. Laura Dykeman Dies Last Evening Funeral Services Thursday .Morning Mrs. Laura Dykeman, 89, of Decatur route 5, four mites northeast of Decatur," died at 6:10 o'clock Monday evening at the Adams county memorial hospital, where she had been a patient since Oct. 19. She Was born in Grant county, O„ Jan. 11,1869. a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Busenbark, She had lived on the same farm In Union township since 1903. Surviving are two sons, C. Dale Osborn of Fort Wayne, and T. Wayne Osborn of Chicago, and the one granddaughter, Catherine Osborn of Fort Wayne. One son and one sister preceded her in death. Funeral services will be conducted at 10 a.m. Thursday at the Zwick funeral home, the Rev. Lawrence T. Norris ' officiating. Burial be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o’clock this evening until time of the services.

Charges Are Raging On Ike Leadership Political Leaders Exchange Charges WASHINGTON. (UP>—W ocrats and Republicans flung new charges today in a raging political crossfire over President Eisenhower’s missile-age leadership. Sen. Hubert ft. Humphrey (DMinn.) declared that “no amount of political hokum and bunkum” will convince Americans the Eisenhower administration "has adequately taken care of national defense.” Humphrey said one of the administration's first acts five years ago was to trim five billion dollars from former President Truman’s defense budget and two billion from foreign aid. Counters Martin. Knowland The Minnesota Democrat’s charge apparently was aimed at countering a broadside fired Monday night by Senate Republican Leader William F. Knowland and House GOP Leader Joseph W Martin. They asserted in a joint statement the Truman administration must bear most of the blame if -the United States is trailing Russia in missile development. But in New York, Truman said Monday, night they were trying after five years “to pass the buck" and it was a little late. Truman started the running fight in an interview by saying Eisenhower was a great military leader because “he had someone to tell him what to do." But Truman did have one word of praise for the President. He told reporters Monday, Eisenhower had written a “good” reply to Soviet Premier Nikolai A. Bulganin. Has Voice, Brains Vice President Richard M. Nixon told a lunch audience Monday that Eisenhower had shown last week that he “has the voice and the brain and knows what to do for the United States." Knowland and Martin reacted with much greater violence in a "public memorandum” addressed to Truman and replying to his “incredible remarks.” They said expert testimony from (Continued on page-flve)

Annual Elks Cancer Party February 8 Proceeds To Indiana Elks Cancer Fund Plans for the annual Elks cancer party were announced today by William Schulte, general chairman for the event. The party will be held Saturday, Feb. 8, at the K. of C. hall, beginning at 7:30 p.m. Schulte stated that the entertainment would begin at 7:30 p.m., with games and the awarding of prizes continuing until 9:30 p.m. and the evening will conclude with dancing from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. Music for the dance will be presented through the cooperation of the American Federation of Musicians Local 607. Schulte has appointed Tony Faurote and Joe Weber to serve as co-chairmen of the event. Vincent Borman will serve as ticket chairman and the regular February committee will assist in the selling of tickets. — Tickets may be obtained for a donation of $1 to the Elks cancer fund. The ticket will entitle the holder to the entire evening of activities. Places where tickets may be obtained will be announced at a later date. Every year, the 90 Elks lodges in Indiana sponsor a cancer patty, the entire proceeds of which will go into the Indiana? Elks cancer fund. During the past 10 years over $500,000 has been donated to cancer research projects by the Indiana Elks association. Much of this money has been given to Indiana and Purdue Universities to help wage a continuous fight against tills dread disease. The Elks also use the fund to sponsor a billboard and poster service as a public education project to inform the public about cancer.

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Anderson Asks For Temporary Says Present Limit — Too Restrictive In 1 View Os More Cost WASHINGTON OH — Secretary of Treasury Robert B. Anderson today sent Congress a request for a temporary increase of five billion dollars in the public debt limit. The present limit is 275 billion dollars. President Eisenhower, in his budget message to Congress Monday, said the present limit is “too restrictive in view of rising defense expenditures and of tha need for more flexibility to permit efficient and economical debt management.” Anderson proposed the temporary increase run from the date it would be signed into law until the end of the next fiscal year—June 30, 1959. The request compares with the last temporary boost of three billion dollars approved by Congress for fiscal 1957 which ended last June 30, and the six-billion-dollar temporary boost authorized by Congress for the two years ended June 30, 195®. ; Red Ink Spending Anderson’s request was made in letters to Rep. Wilbur D. Mills 'D-Ark.l, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, and Rep. Daniel A. Reed <R-N.Y.> ranking GOP member of the committee. Anderson also sent the request to Sen. Harry F. Byrd (D-Va.), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee and Sen. Edward P. Martin (Pa.) ranking minority member. The request came at a time when key lawmakers of both parties agreed that the federal government is heading into a new period of red-ink spending despite the “balanced" budget sent to Congress Monday by the President. Although the President put Congress on notice Monday that he would seek a temporary increase in the debt limit, neither he nor Anderson had indicated in advance how much of an increase could be sought. (Continued <r Page Five)

Decatur Lions View Movie On Taxation Hit At Extemption For Cooperatives A movie, entitled “The Senator’s Daughter" was shown to the Decatur Lions club Monday night by Jay Markley, program chairman. . The movie, sponsored by the national tax equality association, showed one side of the question of taxation regarding cooperatives, mutual insurance, or mutual financial groups, and governmentbacked businesses. According to the film, which told the story of a senator who sidestepped die question of taxing cooperatives during a political campaign, he infuriated die editor-cru-sader of a local paper who was engaged to the senator’s daughter The prospective son-in-law then took the stump against the senator, and won the election by hammering away on the question of taxing cooperatives. InXihe end the senator confessed that the younger man was "morally right and politically right" -- The movie stated that tax-pay-ing concerns are forced to operate under the disadvantage of a federal jncome tax that ranges from 30 to 52 per cent, that the treasury loses nearly $1.5 billion a year in revenue bv not taxing cooperatives, and that every taxpav?must pay more in income taxes to make up for what the tax-exempts do not pay.