Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 38, Decatur, Adams County, 14 February 1958 — Page 1

Vol. LVI. No. 38.

L ibht • -—" Mb . ■ ::y ' < 'WK< - : ‘A ?>M STRICKEN FAMILY REUNITED— Airman John D. Veale, 22, of Washington, Indiana, greets his Japanese wife, Kiki and their 19months old son, Kenneth, at Scott Air Force Base, 111., as the family was reunited in America. Veale is at the Base hospital suffering leukimia which caused his evacuation from Japan. His wife who was tubercular, was not permitted to join him until a few days ago when doctors in Japan found her case to be arrested.

* Demand Boost In Funds For Public Works Administration To Seek Way To Ease Brakes On Spending WASHINGTON (UP) — The administration today sought to remove brakes on public works spending in order to bulwark the national economy against depression. The government disclosed it is rechecking limitations in the huge federal superhighway program " which will require cutting future expenditures. It also revealed it has lifed the spending ceiling on Army Engineers’ public works projects The disclosures came amid demands from Democratic governors and aenators for immediate expansion of federal public works programs to help puß the country out of its business slump. Among the developments: —Gov. Averell Harriman of New York and Democratic chief executives of 10 other northern and western states demanded that President Eisenhower boost public works spending to pump new money into the economy. —ln a joint telegram to the President they also called for easier .credit, "realistic” federal — standards of unemployment compensation, higher farm price supports and—as a last resort—tax cuts for low income families. —Speaker Sam Raybum announced that Democratic congressional leaders would “consider" a possible tax cut this year as an anti-recession measure. —Several Senate Democrats attacked the administration’s newly announced two-billion-dollar post office construction and renovation program. Charging the. plan was "grossly inadequate” and “political trickery,” they demanded an immediate start on a far-reaching public works program. —Sen. Ralph E. Flanders (RVt) said the President's post office proposal was good, but accelerated highway building would be the best way to bridge the gap before business starts to pick up. —Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson listed a number of possible ways to put new bounce into business He urged Congress to press ahead with water projects, housing legislation, veterans’ home loan guarantees and loan programs, urban renewal, a speeded- up highway program, and improved farm programs. Study Fort Wayne's Jobless Situation ( Four-Man Team To ' Report To Handley INDIANAPOLIS Wl — A report for Governor Handley on an investigation of Fort Wayne’s unemployment situation was being prepared today by a four-man team from the state labor department. State Labor Commissioner’ Derrell Weaver said the team had returned after spending several days in the northeastern Indiana cjty interviewing industrial, labor and governmental officials on the effects of current unemployment. Weaver said the team gathered statistics and data which the department had not known about previously. He declined to say what the report would contain. “I’ll just give the governor the report and let him use his own judgment," about whether to take any action and, if so, what, action to take, Weaver said.

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County-Wide 4-H Meef Held Thursday 325 Persons Attend Meeting Thursday -“You can set your goal in 4-H club work just as high as you can reach and are willing to work for," Elden Holsapple, national 4-H achievement winner, told the 325 4-H members, prospective members and parents at the county-wide 4-H meeting Thursday evening at the Adams Central school. Holsapple told the group how he got interested in 4-H work, how he found out what there was to work for and then the way he went about winning two trips to the national 4-H club congress and becoming a national 4-H achievement winner. Wayne Rothgeb, WKJG-TV farms and farming director, reported on 4-H work as he saw it. He used a film which demonstrated 4-H project work and other 4-H activities that serve to develop 4-H members into better citizens. Some direct values of 4-H work were pointed out by Leo N. Seltenright, county agricultural agent; they were training boys and girls in citizenship, leadership, human relations and improved agricultural and homemaking practices. Miss Lois Folk, home demonstration agent, discussed first division project requirements for . the 4-H home economics projects. Project requirements for 4-H agriculture were also discussed. County 4-H medal and award winners recognized and presented last night were: Alice Joan Sprunger, achievement; Nancy Bailey, food preservation; Gail Egly, food preservation; Mary Ann Gerbers, food preservation; Mary Reifsteck, food preservation; Janice VanEman, clothing; Helen Rumple, clothing; Carol Norquest, clothing; Judy Yoder, clothing; Margaret Goerger, food preparation; Twila Arnold, food preparation; Jeannie Stolz, food preparation; Helen Walters, food preparation; Judy Yoder, frozen foods; Lois Jean Gerke, frozen foods; Janice Liechty, frozen foods; Doris Cauble, home economics achievement; Ruth Sipe, home economics achievement; Helen Rumple, horn economics achievement; Sue Merriman, home Improvement; Susan McCullough, home'improvement; Margaret Beeler, safety; Jean Wass, safety; Carl Baker, achievement; Leo Busick, Jim Kirchhofer, Carl Baker and Nolan GriffithSj, agricultural program; Leo Busick and Lois Gerke, dairy; Jim Kirchhofer, Margaret Beeler, Jay Venable and David Myers, electricity: Jack Miller, Tom Peck, and Michael Carr, entomology; Leo Busick and Jerry Sommer, field crops; Leroy Boerger, Rosemary Schlickman, Steven Schlickman, Mary Schwaller, garden; Paul Johnson, susan McCullough and Constance Johnson, health; Michael Lehman, and Jeannie Smith, leadership; Joe Kohne and Jim Singleton, meat animal; Duane Arnold, Leroy Boerger, poultry; Larry Busiek,, Mark Ripley and Deanna Small, recreation; Michael Lehman, soil and water conservation; Lois Jean Gerke, soil and water conservation; Tom Stuber, soil and water conservation: and Glen Lehman, forestry. Special awards in electricity, Ron Mefferd, Lois Jean Gerke, Jim Kirchhofer, and- Margaret Beeler. The following clubs received certificates on the basis of their health and safety program in their local club meetings: Union Pals, Jefferson Work and Win. Jefferson Go Getters, Geneva Cloverblossom and St. Mary’s Kekiongas. The meetings was opened by the pledge to the American flag, (Continued on Par* Five)

Economy Drive Slackoff Seen In House Move Only Slight Slash . By Committee In Budget Segment WASHINGTON (UP) — The House Appropriations Committee today approved almost intact a slice Os President Eisenhower’s budget — reflecting a slackoff in the congressional economy drive. The committee sent to the floor for action next week a $413,145,000 bill, carrying 99.7 per cent ot the funds requested by Eisenhower to operate the Interior Department and related agencies in the fiscal year starting July 1. The over-all reduction amounted to only $1,339,000 That compares with last year when the President requested about 101 million dollars more for the same agencies and the committee chopped off 60 million dollars. In approving the measure today the committee made it clear that it felt the President had gone too far this year with some of his proposals for economies in non-defense spending. It recommended Congress increase the President’s budget by SBOO,OOO for the Bureau of Indian Affairs to build urgently needed schools for Indian children; by $500,000 for forest and land management employe housing; and by $651,000 for forest roads and trails. The committee said 8,000 Indian children were without school facilities. However, the three proposed increases were more than offset by other committee-voted reductions. The group thumbed down entirely $300,000 requested to acquire land for Superior National Forest and $1,120,000 for land acquisition by the National Capital Planning Commission to add to the District of Columbia’s park, parkway and playground system. The bill did not include funds for the Interior Department’s construction of reclamation projects which are carried separately in a public works money bill to be drafted later. A number of lawmakers from both parties have announced they will seek more funds for these projects than recommended in the budget. Thus, prospects are the Congress will wind up increasing the President's $73,900,000,000 spending budget, particularly in view ot the wive underway to step up defense spending and to offset the business slump with more government' spending. ’ < --- The committee, in an accompanying report, noted that the Interior Department as late as December was contracting for exploration of tungsten under a federal aid program. It directed that no additional contracts be approved, asserting there was "no justification" in view of the surplus stocks on hand. The committee cuts 750,000 from the President s budget for geological surveys. It said the funds it (Continued on page eight) 4-H Adult Leaders Conference Feb. 20 Decatur And Berne Rotary Clubs Hosts Adams County adult 4-H leaders who will be attending the 19th annual district adult leaders’ training conference at Decatur Thursday, Feb, 20, will find many helpful suggestions for carrying on their work for the coming year, says Leo N. Seltenright, county agent, today. The conference for local leaders will be held in the Youth and Community, Center at Decatur. Registration starts at 4 p.m. Instructors for the day’s program will be Mrs. Evelyn Quesenberry and Eric Holm from Purdue University. The afternoon program will begin with an appraisal of club work now. The program will close with “Where tomorrow,” All leaders will be together for the session, "Junior leaders and you.” In divided sessions, “Methods of teaching" and demonstrations — What and how," will be presented by the Purdue instructors. A highlight of the program will be the evening dinner with the members of the Decatur Rotary club. The dinner will be at 6:30 p.m. in the Decatur Youth and Community Center. The speaker for the dinner will be J. Ward Calland. After graduating from Ohio State University, Calland was for several years a member of the staff of the Ohio agricultural experiment station. He was then employed as farm manager of some 10,000 acres of Ohio (Continued o® pace eight)

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Mack Requests Early Opportunity To Reply To Unfounded Charges

Fresh Violence I In Schools In New York City Junior High Pupils Are Victimized In Daylight Robbery NEW YORK (UP)— Senate juvenile delinquency investigators confer with top New York school officials today in the wake of fresh teen-age violence that included a daylight robbery of junior high school students. James L. Sullivan, chief counsel for the Senate subcommittee on juvenile delinquency, scheduled an afternoon meeting with superintendent of schools William Jansen and other officials on New York’s handling of violence in the schools. The subcommittee will hold public hearings here Feb. 27 and 28. In the latest outbreak of youthful lawlessness two Negro youths estimated to be 16 and 19 years old invaded the Macombs Junior High School in the Bronx. Round Up Monitors Brandishing a long knife <pnd club, they rounded up seven-fourth-floor corridor monitors, aged 12 to 14, and a 13-year-old . girl.- Prom the boys the robbers took a total ot about $6 and four . wristwatches. They did not rob or otherwise molest the girl. All the victims were white. Detectives meanwhile questioned relatives and neighbors of a pretty, black - haired high school student, Lillian Mojica, 16, whose beaten and partly burned body was found in the cellar of her Manhattan home. The girl, New York-born daughter of Puerto- Rican, parents, had a hole in the top of her head, apparently from a severe blow The upper part of her body was charred and her clothes were burned off. Her brother. Richard, 15, reported the grisly find when he returned home from school and neighbors notified police. In other developments: —A. key witness at the trial, of seven teen-agers charged with first degree murder in the stabbing death of a polio-crippled ,oungster testified that he had been the “warlord" of a youth gang called the Egyptian Dragons. Two Arrested —A 15 - year -old high school sophomore whose name was withheld and 17-year-old Robert Harrison were arrested on car theft charges in Queens Borough. —A bomb warning was telephoned anonymously to the Board of Education at its headquarters in Brooklyn. Police searched the building but found nothing. —The Board of Education announced that its get-tough policy under which more than 644 trou blesome high school and elemen(Ccntlnuel r r'age Elya, Plan Three Armed ™ Atom Submarines Announcement From United States Navy WASHINGTON-im — The Navy announced today that General Dynamics Corp, at Groton, Conn., and the Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, Calif., will build the nation’s first three Polaris missile armed atomic submarines. Two will be built by the General Dynamics Electric Boat Division at Groton. The” first of these will cost between 105 and 110 million dollars, the second between 85 and 90 million. Congress recently approved 296 million dollars in emergency funds for construction of the three nuclear-powered submarines. The Navy hopes to build six more when funds are approved. 1 . The 5,600-ton vessels, to be completed in 1960, will be the largest known underseas craft in the world, Each will carry a.reported 16 of the 1,500-mile range Polaris missiles.

Slight Moderation In Indiana Weather Worst Cold Wave Os Winter Is Week Old By UNITED PRESS week-old cold wave Soderated slightly today and ived »the way for one to two taqbes or more of snow to blanket Spiral and southern areas. ÜBut the weatherman warned that winter's icy blast will return with renewed vigor Saturday,, sending the mercury tumbling to lows of 6 to 15 Saturday night and holding it to a range ot 12 to 20 Sunday. The snow was due generally over the state this afternoon and tonight, with the heaviest fall in the south. Parts of the central portion had snow this morning, making roads slippery in spots. Most areas south of a tier of northern counties have; been snowfree throughout the . current cold spell. However, the South Bend area lay buried under a week-old foot of snow, some of which drifted to depths of six or eight feet. Temperatures climbed into the 30s Thursday, even reaching a peak of 30 at Evansville. And for the first time since last Friday they failed to drop to, near or below zero® this morning. ‘ v -However, a colder trend will develop Saturday and the outlook was for a chilly weekena. The five-day outlook Ailed for , temperatures' averaging 10 to 14 degrees below normal for the period ending next Wednesday. A warming trend was considered “likely" Monday or Tuesday. More snow was expected, too, although for the period it will amount to only one-fifth to onetenth of an inch in occasional flurries with “more continuous” snow likely Monday or Tuesday. Snow was forecast for this (' ■ >ea on Pane Five) Rotary To Continue Student Sponsorship To Renew Foreign Exchange Program The Decatur Rotary club decider at its meeting Thursday night to continue its sponsorship of the foreign exchange student program which brought Ken* Eliasson of Gotenberg, Sweden, to Decatur and which will send one of Decatur’s high school students abroad during next summer. The Rev. Walter H. Moeller, of Lancaster, Ohio, who has been guest missioner during the crusade for Christ mission at Zion Lutheran church, was the speaker. Ken Eliasson, who is a senior at Decatur high school, has been in Decatur since last August. He has spoken to a number of groups telling them about his native Sweden and has been absorbing a knowledge of the American way of life, which he can in turn describe to his countrymen.Rev. Moeller mentioned the urgent need of an evangelism program in churches of all denominations. He pointed out that the Lutheran church has been a bit slow in getting started, but that the program was gaining momentum through crusade for Christ missions similar to the one just completed successfully in Decatur. He described the dangerous world conditions today with another war imminent He told of some of the danger spots he had seen in tftoknear east. Feeling that the next several years will be of as much importance to America’s future as were her Revolutionary War years, he said he had decided to run for Congress from the tenth district of Ohio. President Robert Smith read a letter from Rotary International congratulating Clarence Zlner on the establishment of the new club at Rochester. The club agreed to an Individual assessment to finance the foreign exchange program. Louis A. Jacobs was program chairman and introduced the speaker.

Fourth Freeze Os Winter For North Florida Initial Break In Marathon Cold Wave Appeared Thursday > By UNITED PRESS The fourth and possibly worst freeze of the winter bit into snowcovered northern Florida today and fresh snows plagued the West, the Great Lakes and the Northeast. However, the first break in the marathon cold wave across the eastern two-thirds of the country appeared Thursday. Southerly winds boosted temperatures as much as 20 degrees in parts of the Mississippi Valley. The “warming trend” spread during the night over most of the Plains and part of the Ohio Valley. Despite the temperature rise, overnight readings still were near frezing as far south as Oklahoma and th Texas Panhandle. There was no letup in the weeklong eastern cold snap. Temperatures plunged into the tens in ' uppr Florida early today and into the 20s and 30s in most of • the central and southern sections. Freeze Follows Snow The coldest and wettest winter • io Florida history already has I wiped out its vegetable crop and s dealt a crippling blow to its billion ■ dollar tourist, livestock and fruit I industries. Thousands of Florida cattle have died of starvation. Twenty-thousand migrant farm workers, many of them living in unheated shanties, were unable to find work. The South’s latest freeze followed on the heels of record snows in northern Florida and along the Gulf Coast to New Orleans and northwestern Louisiana. Mardi Gras activities in New Orleans got back in stride after a one-day halt caused by snow Tuesday- Thousands turned out Thursday night, in chilly but dry weather, to watch the Comus parade. The Krewe of Hermes parades tonight, and two balls are scheduled. Activities leading up to the beginning of Lent next Wednesday will expand daily, with three parades and four balls set for Saturday and six parades Sunday. Some rain was forecast, but no more snow. 129 Persons Dead Three inches of slushy snow (Continued on page eight) Fort Wayne Office Robbed Os $1,128 Two Gunmen Stage Robbery Thursday FORT WAYNE (IP) —Fort Wayne authorities today searched for two armed men, considered “dangerous,” who robbed the Associates Loan & Investment Co. of $1,128 early Thursday. The bandits were described as ■six-footers, one well dressed and the other “sloppy” in appearance. They scooped cash from four drawers and robbed a customer, Mrs. Goldie Tomlinson, of $l5O. Mrs. Tomlinson said she was waiting to pay bills when the . bandits grabbed three SSO bills out of her hand. She said they missed S6OO in cash in her purse. New Haven Robbery NEW HAVEN (IP) —Allen county authorities today planned to give lie detector tests to two men arrested as suspects in the SI,BOO “sneak robbery” of the N & W Oil Co. late Thursday. Company officials said the two men entered the firm’s office and “walked off” with a cash box containing $1,200 in currency and S6OO in checks. The men were described as "between 28 and 30 years old.” Sheriff's deputies picked up the two suspects about two hours later and also impounded what they called the getaway car. The two men have denied the robbery.

Candidate I Von A. Eichhorn Senator Eichhorn Asks Renomination State Senator To Seek Renomination State senator Von A. Eichhorn, of Uniondale, announced today I that he would seek renomination f and reelection to the ofifee of state senator from Adams, Wells and Blackford counties. 7 The Senator hag served on i many important committees, and 1 is now serving on the legislative i advisory commission to the govt ernor. For many years Eichi horn was the. only Democrat on the commission, and presently he 1 is one of two Democrats on it. 1 He is also a member of the 1 highway study and investigating commission, commission for the aging, the committees studying teacher’s retirement, public employees pension plans, and teacher training and licensing. Senator Eichhorn is also working in the Illinois and Indiaria lake shore study commission. These are all in addition to his regular committee appointments during the regular session. If reelected, be will have the distinction of being the dean of the Indiana senate. Senator Eichhorn is married, the father of three children, and is a member of the Lutheran church. Jordan, Iraq. Are Formally United Officially Linked In Federal Union > AMMAN, Jordan (UP) —Jordan and Iraq today officially linked themselves in a federal union with a central government and parliament, one army, one foreign policy and one economy. Kings Hussein of Jordan and Feisal of Iraq, 22-year-old cousins, signed the official document proclaiming their federation at Hussein’s Basman Palace early today after nighttong negotiations. The new state will be called the Arab Federation and its army the Arab Army. An Iraqi official said King Feisal would be the permanent symbolic head of the federated kingdom but each monarch will retain his domestic crown. The central government will alternate between Baghdad and Amman every six monthsThe new state will merge the 1 Iraqi and Jordan armies into a single unit under joint army com- ; mand. It will join the two countries into a tight-knit economic • union which is expected to bring I sofe fruits of Iraq’s rich Oil industry to Jordan. I The new state will have a cen- ( tral parliament to regulate affairs of the federation. From, it will be drawn a council of ministers to form a. central government. The joint parliament would supplement but not eliminate the two present legislatures.

FBI Ordered To Assist In Investigation Commissioner Os FCC Seeks Early Hearing On Charge WASHINGTON (UP) — Feder- , al Communications Commissioner Richard A. s Mack requested au early chance today to appear before House investigators and answer Jhe “unsubstantiated charges, accusations, innuendoes and distortions so recklessly made” against him. Mack, accused of accepting $2,650 in a contested television channel case, said in response to a question that he had no thought of resigning- —- Mack made public a brief letter he sent to Chairman Oren Harris (D-Ark.) of a House investigating subcommittee asking for a chance to present his side. The charges were made against Mack Thursday by Bernard Schwartz, ousted chief counsel for the subcommittee. “I am confident that when all the facts are presented to your committee, you will conclude that the accusations of Bernard Schwartz are without fondation,” Mack told Harris. I Mack requested "an early op- ■ portunity to appear before your ■ committee and answer the unsubstantiated charges, accusations, innuendos and distortions so recklessly made by Bernard Schwartz.” Mack said he informed the office of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover this morning that* he would cooperate with the FBI any time in every way possible.” The FBI was ordered by Atty. Gen. William P. Rogers Thursday to investigate the case. Just before Mack’s letter was released, he arrived -at his FCC office and posed smiling for photographers“Is there any thought of your resigning,” a reporter asked. “No sir,” Mack replied. In response to another question, Mack said he did not know yet when he would be called to testify before the subcommittee. Harris indicated his subcommittee might meet sometime during the day in closed session to discuss calling Mack and other future witnesses. * Public hearings resume Monday. Frank George Steele Dies This Morning Frank George Steele, 84. retired Adams county farmer, died at 5:45 o'clock this morning at the South View nursing home at Bluffton. He was born in Pleasant Mills March 3, 1873, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Steele. His wife, the former Ora Hard, died in 1954. Surviving is an adopted son, Harold Steele, of Dover, Del. Funeral services will be conducted . at 2 p. m. Sunday at the Zwick funeral home, the Rev. Billy J. Springfield officiating. Burial will be in Woodlawn cemetery at Ohio City, O. Friends may call at the funeral home after 2 p. m. Saturday until time of the services. INDIANA WEATHER Snow tills afternoon and tonight, diminishing to snow flurries on Saturday. Snow amounts generally one to two . inches but possibly larger amounts in south portion tonight Somewhat warmer tonight. Turning colder Saturday afternoon and night Low tonight 12 to 18 north, 18 to 25 south. High Saturday 22 £ to 26 north, 26 to 32 sputh. Sunset today 6:20 p. m. Sunrise Saturday 7:39 a. m. Outlook for Sunday: Partly etoudy and. colder with snow flurries north portton. Laws Saturday night 6 to 15. Highs Sunday 12 to 20.

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