Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 18, Decatur, Adams County, 22 January 1958 — Page 10

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Citizens For Ike To Have New Chairman New York Lawyer To Head Campaign For Funds This Year By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON (UP'— The Republican high command has been informed that the Citizens-for-Ei-senhower 'CFE> organizatiop will have a new chairman for the 1958 congressional campaign — and. maybe, a somewhat more realistic role in national politics. The new chairman will be Lloyd MacMahon, a 45-year-old New York lawyer and former assistant US. attorney. He was CFE chair-

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man in New York slate /or- the 195fi presidential campaign. MacMahon will succeed John Reed Kilpatrick who. alsb is chairman of the board of Madison Square (garden in New York City. Gen. Lucius D. Clay has been and-probably will continue to be a V>B wheel in CFE and Thomas E. Stephens, an unofficial but influential White House consultant, is expected to continue to help shfene the organization’s policies. Has Raised Money CFE has had a spotty record. It has done a professionally successful job of money raising—ss,ooo,ooo in the last three campaigns despite an amateurish I approach to politics which was' the despair of realistic Republi-; can politicos. The CFE set-up was, ideal for obtaining funds from individuals who for one reason or another preferred not to contrib-. ute directly to Republican Party, campaign organizations. The political pros were 'saddened by the use to which CFE put its campaign funds, comparatively little of which went to candidates in the form in which it was most welcome and needed.

■ That form, of course, would be in cash or by check of substani tial proportions. CFE apparently ■ did not • realize the hazards of i thumliing into R< pu! iican primar- ■ les. ■ . The maneuver, however, which most offended many Republican organization workers, right down to the grass roots, was the 1956 , ’ effort to prevent the renomination of Vice President Richard M Nix- • on. General Clay generally was accounted the head man in that operation, his stop-Nixon enthusiasm evidently having been fired by a poll which mistakenly came up with the opinion that Nixon ! would be a liability to President i Eisenhower ir. the 1956 campaign. This same poll produced the I names of some alternates, among them Harold E. Stassen. ] That may account for the coni fidence with which Stassen in 1956 assumed public leadership of the ! stop-Nixon movement, a role he | surrendered -at the 1956 San Franj convention just in time to ! speak in favor of Nixon’s renemination.

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Need Funds Many of the so-called practical Republicans, the veteran party j men. acquired- a dim- view of the Citizens -for - Eisenhower operation except for its money-raising potential. It probably is fair to say that they merely tolerate CFE today and hope for thy best. A’ realistic Mew of the situation iso that the Republican pros want. and need only one thing from i CFE—campaign funds. They are accustomed to work-' ing with CFE personnel. Peter H. Clayton, a lawyer and CFE veteran, gained the confidence of the i practical politicians over the years. liiaj was peculiarly because he in 1956 was the first and ’ for a long period the only CFE official to endorse Nixon's renom-j i nation. The Organization has some $200,000 banked, right now with more: to come Tne party politicos hope; MacMahon knows what to do, with; it If you have something to sell or rooms for rent, try a Democrat Want Ad— they bring results.

I Firecrackers Tossed During Talent Show WHITING 'IP — Four’Hammond ! youths were ordered to appear in Whiting City Court Thursday to anI swer disorderly conduct charges ’ filed by authorities who said they ; tossed a string of 50 small fire- ‘ crackers crowd watching a talent show ina community cepter. State Traffic Toll Below 1957 Figures i INDIANAPOLIS IIP — Indiana's traffic fatality toil continued today to run well below the total for last [ yety. The 1958 deaths by last Sun- : day midnight totaled 35 compared i with 47 a year earlier. Rural deaths were down from 31 to 27 I and urban deaths down from 16 to 8. About half *of 18 deaths added to the list last week occurred during darkness hours. Trade in a good town — Decatur

Secy. Benson Pledges Only Gradual Cuts Promises farm Beit Senators No Abrupt Cuts In Supports WASHINGTON (IP — Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson promised farm belt senators today he would make only "gradual” cuts in price supports if Congress approves the administration’s new farm program. “We would not want to make any abrupt change," he told members of the Senate agriculture committee in a second .day of testimony in support of his plan. The new administration program calls for lower support floors on seven i major farm products and loosening I production controls. Committee members were noi ticeably gentler in questioning Beni Son today than they were when ! he testified last Friday. But the legislators, apparently stung by editorial criticism of their earlier treatment of Benson, didn't backi track on their charges that his I account of farm program costs was misleading. “Your balance sheet is loaded to give an optimistic, picture," sen. Stuart Symington (D-Mo.) ' told Benson, Chairman Allen J. Ellerider 'DLa.' said Benson "insinuated” in testimony last Friday that farm j support programs cost the government $3 250,000.000 in the fiscal year which ended last June 30. The actual cost should have been $786,551,000, Eltender told the secretary. Ellender said Benson’s figure included the cost of feeding the armed forces and needy , people, arid of farm surpluses and other similar items. 1 In some of these cases “it is difficult to say whether we should i charge that item up to support of farm prices,” Benson conceded. But he insisted that his figures j vjrere “fair."

Guatemala Congress Will Meet Thursday . Examine Returns Os j National Election GUATEMALA CITY (UP) — Guatemala’s Congress, dominated 5 to 1 by supporters of presidential candidate Jose L. Cruz Sala-. 7 zarr meets Thursday to examine.: i election returns showing that he ' finished third in Sunday's voting, i i The national legislature will | ; choosy, a committee to scrutinize j I the brftots and election registers I now being sent here from the : ' provinces as ‘a preliminary to se-' I lection of a president. Because none of the five candi- j dates in Sunday's election polled | ; a clear majority of the vote, Congress must decide which of the two front-runners shall be Guatemala's next chief executive. Congressional scrutiny of the returns is considered almost certain to upset an official election I report showing that leftist Mario j Mendez Montenegro ran seoond, | and it may even challenge the I victory officialyl conceded to : rightist’ Gen Miguel Ydigoras Fuentes. Cruz’ MDN party, founded by assassinated President Carlos Castillo Armas, already has published its own version of Sunday's returns to show Cruz in second place. The official returns published Monday gave Mendez a 470-vote margin over Cruz with totals of about 98,000 votes for each. Neither the official nor the MDN version of the returns mentioned two minority candidates, who ran too far behind the leaders to matter.

Gasoline Price War Ends In Indianapolis INDIANAPOLIS (IP) — A gasoline price war which started last October and sent the retail cost for regular down to 25.9 cents a gallon ended'today in the Indianapolis area. Independent service stations raised the price to 29.9 for regular and 31.9 for premium. Major distributors will raise prices Thursday, to 31.9 for regular and 35.9 for premium. , , -s -—' — Two Drivers Fined On Traffic Charges Harold W. Schieferstein, 17, route 1, Decatur, was fined $1 and costs, totaling $16.75, in justice of the peace court Tuesday. Schieferstein was arrested recently on a charge of passing a car at a marked intersection at the junction of U.S. highway 27 and the Piqua road. Betty J. Grafton, 21, route 4, Decatur, entered a plea of guilty to a charge of operating a motor vehicle without a valid driver’s license and was fined $1 and costs, ■ totaling $16.75, Tuesday.

Hearing Slated For Little Rock Student White Student Is Under Suspension LITTLE ROCK, Ark. School officials scheduled a hearing today for a white girl accused of bumping into a Negro girl at integrated Central High School. The white student, Darlene Holloway, was suspended as result of the alleged jostling recently of Elizabeth Eckford, one of the nine Negro students whose enrollment at Central was enforced by federal troops. Dr. William G, Cooper, school board president, ordered the hearing after Miss Holloway’s mother, Mrs. Fred Gist, had protested the suspension. Mrs. Gist, a member of the pro-segregation Mothers League of Central High, had threatened to take the case into court. The hearing, at which both girls were expected to give their versions of the bumping, was the latest in a rash of developments resulting from tension over tionAnother student, David Sonteg, 16, has been suspended for dumping soup on a Negro girl who called him "poor white trash”, school officials disclosed Tuesday. A bomb scare Tuesday, the third in six days, sent authorities on a fruitless search of the building. A dynamite stick, without fuse oT detonator, was found in an unused locker Monday. School officials blamed the bomb scares on a “campaign of terror”- which they believe is I aimed at forcing the school to close. But segregationist leaders ! deny knowledge of any such camI paign.

Proposed Contract Submitted To UAW Special Convention Opened In Detroit DETROIT (UP> — Walter P. Reuther and the United Auto Workers executive board today submitted proposed 1958 contract demands to 3.600 delegates at the union's special convention. Despite strong popular sentiment for seeking - a shorter work week to combat unemployment, Reuther told the convention the leadership’s program — consisting of a profit sharing plan and basic wage and benefit increases—will mean more purchasing power for workers. In a last-minute tactical move. Reuther and the executive board invited General Motors President Harlow' H. Curtice to address the UAW convention Curtice had called the UAW’s leadership2s culledrtive bargaining program “wholly unrealistic” and the profit sharing plan "foreign to the concept of the American free enterprise, system.” Reuther asked Curtice to give the delegates today or Thursday helpful advice "in drafting a collective, bargaining program that is sound and realistic.” The UAW. which has 800.000 auto industry members during full employment but currently has only 600,000 has worked under a three-year contract with major firms since early June. 1955. Reuther has indicated the union will seek only a one-year contract this year. The big item in 1955 w’as supplemental unemployment benefits. The union intends to improve this plan this year, and win increases in all wage and benefit matters But the big issue will be the fight for a share of profits for workers. The basic economic demands of the UAW program include a wage increase of about 10 cents ar. hour. The UAW administration also wants unemployment benefits raised from 65 per cent of a worker’s regular pay to 80 per cent. Byt even more important, the UAW chiefs want unemployment benefits paid on a daily basis instead of a weekly basis. This would combat management’s use of three and four-day weeks to avoid payment of unemployment compensation and supplemental benefits. The union contends workers should be compensated for layoffs whether they are ordered by the day or by the week. Democrat Wins In Pennsylvania Vote GREENSBURG, Pa.- — (IB — State Sen. John H. Dent (D-Pa.) winner of a special congres.sional election, today called his victory “proof that the people of the country are sorely dissatisfied with management on a national scale and with external and internal problems.” Dent won easily Tuesday over Republican Herbtrt O. Morrison, a Pittsburgh radio newcaster, in the Westmoreland County election in which 161,436 voters, only 42 per cent of those eligible, cast ballots. Unofficial results from 256 of the 270 precincts gave Dent 30,129 votes to 29,786 for Morrison. Dent will succeed the late Rep. Augustine Kelley, a Democrat who died last November. Trade in a good town —• Decatur

WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 22, 1958

Smith To Speak To Historical Society Lowell J. Smith. Ddcatur high school history teacher, will address the Adams county historical society Thursday at 8 p.tn. on the Indians of Indiana, Bryce Thomas, president of the society, said today. The Boy Scouts of troop 63 and any others interested in the program, are invited to attend the meeting. The annual election of will’take place following the program. The meeting is held on Jan: 23 to celebrate the founding of Adams county 122 years ago that date. Held For Flying Forgery Racket INDIANAPOLIS — (W — James Patrick Kelly. 24, San Franisco, was arrested by police late Tuesday in connection with a "flying ' forgery racket. Authorities ■ Said Kelly and James Lang, 30, Hawarden. lowa, broke into the office of a grocery chain in Albert Lea, Minn., last Dec. 9 and stole three pads of blank payroll checks. They said the pair then flew around the country in planes cashing the forged checks for $l5O amounts. Lang was picked up by FBI agents in Kansas City, Mo., Tuesday. If you have something to sell or rooms for rent, try a Democrat Want Ad— they bring results.

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